Ben Shattuck, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is a recipient of the PEN America Short Story Prize and a 2019 Pushcart Prize. Shattuck's first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House, 2022) was a New Yorker magazine Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, and a New England Indie Bestseller. His forthcoming book of short stories, The History of Sound, will be published by Viking in July of 2024. He lives with his wife and daughter on the coast of Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793. He is also the founder and director of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers' Residency.
Agent: Claudia Ballard, WME
2013 Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa
2008 Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
Director, Cuttyhunk Island Writers' Residency (link)
Director and Curator, Dedee Shattuck Gallery
Award & Residencies
Pushcart Prize winner for short story, The History of Sound, 2019
PEN America Best Debut Short Story award, 2017
Gates of the Arctic Artist-in-Residence, 2016 (Alaska) (link)
Bread Loaf Scholarship in Fiction, 2015
Verney Fellow, 2014, Nantucket Historical Association
Residency with Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2009 - 2010
Teaching-Writing Fellow, Iowa Writers' Workshop, 2012-2013
Writing Fellow, The Vermont Studio Center, 2013
The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, New York, 2013
Nonfiction Fellow, Tin House Writers' Workshop
Rocky Neck Artist Colony Residency, Gloucester, MA
The Michael Rapuano Memorial Award Cornell University
Selected Exhibitions
Steven Amedee Gallery, New York, NY
Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston, MA
Graylock Gallery, Williamstown MA
Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA