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“Genevieve Bentz’s Brood drops us into a sticky summer metaphor that’s laced with criminal mystery.”

JR Walsh, Editor, the Citron Review

Genevieve Bentz’s work has been published in The Rumpus, Feminist Food Journal, Citron Review, Nassau Literary Review and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as on her personal Substack, Cold Cream.

In 2026, she was a finalist for the Traver Award. In 2025, she was a finalist for the Salamander Magazine Fiction Contest.

Her legal writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Pratt’s Energy Law Report, and Government Law Review. She was an editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, a Salzburg Cutler Fellow, and part of the European Research Council’s Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies project.

Currently a D.C.- based attorney, she studied creative writing at Princeton University under Joyce Carol Oates, Edmund White, and Chang-Rae Lee, and previously worked as both a staff writer for the Brooklyn Quarterly and a ghostwriter.

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