Irving Benig is a poet, novelist and playwright in New York. The Messiah Stones, a novel and Literary Guild Main Selection, was published by Villard/Random House and translated into fourteen languages. Eine Geschichte fur Rose (A Story for Rose), another novel, appeared in Germany via Bertelesmann. His poetry has been published in various journals, including The New York Quarterly, Trace, The Carleton Miscellany and others. He is currently at work on a new play and novel.

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