Elected: 2025
Marina Benjamin is an essayist and writer of memoir. She has published six books, including Rocket Dreams and Last Days in Babylon, and most recently a trilogy of memoirs about midlife: The Middlepause (2016), Insomnia (2018) and A Little Give (2023). Her books have been translated into many languages and have been long- and short-listed for awards. Marina is an editor at Aeon Magazine. Her personal essays have appeared in Granta, New Statesman, TLS and the Paris Review.
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