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Ben C. Stroud

Ben C. Stroud's forthcoming short story collection, Byzantium, won the 2012 Bakeless Prize for Fiction. He teaches at the University of Alabama.

Articles

"Here beat the true pulse of the New World. Here its promises of happiness were given the lie."
Ben C. Stroud
A short story.
Ben C. Stroud

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