Ben Loory

Ben Loory is an American short fiction author that hails from Los Angeles California. He is best known for the “Tales of Falling and Flying” and “Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day” collections of short stories. He has also authored several other novels and a children’s picture book. Loory’s short fiction have been featured in Fairy Tale Review, The Antioch Review, READ Magazine, Tin House, The New Yorker and have been performed at WordTheater in London and Los Angeles. They have also been on audio in Selected Shorts and This American Life. His titles have been translated into several languages including Indonesian, Japanese, Farsi, and Arabic. Loory’s parents never had a television, and he had to relish his moments watching cartoons in the homes of his friends during the weekends. However, with parents that were both English teachers that had met in college, he had all the books and influence he would need for his future life as a professional author. His house on the edge of town was full of books and Ben would spend much of his time during the week gorging on all types of books from his parents’ library. Unsurprisingly, one of his most favorite works was Aesop’s fables, which have had a very significant influence on his later works.