John Benson is editor and publisher of Not One of Us, a long-running (1986 — present) hardcopy magazine about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the SF sense — anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. (See http://not-one-of-us.com.) More than 100 stories and poems from the pages of Not One of Us have been reprinted or honorably mentioned in best-of collections. He also edited The Best of Not One of Us (Prime, 2006). From 1984 through 1987, he served as editor of the horror magazine Doppelgänger.

John is the author of nearly 100 published poems. "The Waters Where Once We Lay" (Jabberwocky 3), co-authored with Sonya Taaffe, was honorably mentioned in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant).

John is also managing director of the opinion research program at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has co-authored more than 100 articles in medical, policy, and public opinion journals. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Anke Kriske, two sons, and a cat.