Who is Benjamin Teicher?
Benjamin Teicher has written fiction, lifestyle pieces, literary essays, reviews and interviews for The Guardian, mX, Three Thousand, The Razor, Voiceworks, & Online Opinion.
Although born into bland suburbs and attending nondescript schools, Benjamin had the good fortune – as a writer that is – to be born into a family gripped by acrimony and malaise.
He writes to transform his aching self-consciousness into an asset. His early short stories for Voiceworks wowed the fringes of the Melbourne literary set with their kooky and symbolic alienation.
The first half of this decade was spent working in the magazine industry while studying Media and Communication as well as Social Theory at The University of Melbourne.
As lead singer of the now-defunct art-rock vessel Near Your House, audiences were delighted and unsettled by his camp caterwauling and cavalier antics.
The year 2007 saw his debut as a conceptual artist with the exhibition Mangina for which he produced the harrowing and hilarious Mimerotica – a pseudo-porno comprised of lusty young men where gender and sexuality was figuratively and literally inverted.
Benjamin now divides his time between legitimate journalism and his overriding passion for fiction. He has recently moved to London to try his luck in that vast metropolis, to be more lucid than Robert Hughes, more feminist than Germaine Greer.
Endorsements:
“Benjamin Teicher.. no shit. genius. i dip MY good head to HIM.”
- Robbie Coleman, Right Angle Publishing
“His writing is lucid and pointed, yet complex and challenging. Beneath each utterance lies a subtle and nuanced understanding of the world, deftly impressing upon the reader that another compassionate soul is out there with them.”
- Ryan Paine, former editor of Voiceworks
