Ben Black is assistant fiction editor of AGNI and has been part of the editorial team since 2019. His work has been published in Best Microfiction, The Southampton Review, New American Writing, Wigleaf, Harpur Palate, and The Los Angeles Review. His stories have been finalists for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the Calvino Prize, the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest, and the Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose. He teaches English and creative writing in the San Francisco Bay Area. (updated 4/2024)

With Esteban Rodríguez and Jennifer De Leon, he coedited To Never Have Risked Our Lives: An AGNI Portfolio of Central American and Mexican Writing.