Contact:
ben.shattuck@gmail.com
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
BOOK TOUR
for Six Walks
Wednesday May 25
(POSTPONED to JUNE 8th!)
7pm ET
In person bookstore event
Twenty Stories in partnership with
GLOU bar
Providence, RI
In conversation with Jenny Slate
Thursday May 26
7pm ET
In person Event
In Conversation with Julia Glass
Fine Arts Work Center
Provincetown, MA
Event information and Tickets HERE
JUNE 8th
7pm ET
In person bookstore event
Twenty Stories in partnership with
GLOU barProvidence, RI
In conversation with Jenny Slate
Thursday June 9
8pm ET
LIT CRAWL Boston
In Conversation with Thoreau Impersonator
Tuesday June 14
6pm ET
Gallery Show of Drawings + Reading
Deborah Burke Partners
220 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY
Friday June 17
9am ET
In person event
Nantucket Book Festival
In Conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick
Event information HERE
Sunday July 17
In person event
Summer Star Wildlife Sanctuary
Reading & Nature Walk
Boylston, MA
Sunday July 31
In person event
Henry L. Ferguson Museum
Fishers Island, NY