Matti Ben-Lev is a queer nonfiction writer and poet based in Northern Virginia. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Rumpus, CRAFT, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. His unpublished chapbook manuscript, “letters to jimi hendrix,” was a semi-finalist in FLP’s 2025 chapbook contest. He is the assistant nonfiction editor for the intersectional feminist lit mag So to Speak, and an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction from George Mason University. Find him on his website www.mattibenbenlev.com or on Bluesky @mattibl.bsky.social.
