Justin Bendell
Associate Professor of English
Humanities
Email: jbendell@unm.edu
Phone: 305.596.1684
Office Location: Academics 142 E
Website: https://www.justinbendell.com/
Education / Degrees
- MFA in Creative Writing, Florida International University (2014)
- MA in Liberal Studies, Northern Arizona University (2008)
- BS in Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000)
Biography
I am an Associate Professor of English and was the co-founder and co-editor of UNM-Valencia's now-defunct literary journals, Manzano Mountain Review & Little Wolf.
I teach creative writing, composition & rhetoric, expository writing, & literature. Other interests include short fiction and novel writing techniques, crime fiction, radical social history, philosophy, and chess.
My stories and poems have appeared in Meridian, 3:AM Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Thuglit, Washington Square Review, Mystery Tribune, and other publications.
From 2017 to 2024, I was the co-host of Point Blank: Hardboiled, Noir, and Detective Fiction.
When I’m not playing chess, I make lo-fi garage rock with fuguers cove, bedroom folk with high plains home recordings, and sonic weirdness with a number of secret projects.
Professional Organizations
Two-Year College Association-Southwest Region
Modern Language Association
