Ross Benjamin is a writer and translator living in Nyack, New York. His translations include Friedrich Hรถlderlin's Hyperion, Kevin Vennemann's Close to Jedenew, and Thomas Pletzinger's Funeral for a Dog. He was a 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and won the 2010 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize for his rendering of Michael Maar's Speak, Nabokov.