Benjamin Gorman

Benjamin Gorman's novels The Sum of Our Gods, Corporate High School, The Digital Storm, Don’t Read This Book, and You Were Warned, the poetry collections When She Leaves Me and This Uneven Universe, and his non-fic book Dear America: A Breakup Letter are all available from Not a Pipe Publishing now!

Benjamin Gorman (he/him) is an award-winning former high school English teacher, political activist, author, poet, and publisher at Not a Pipe Publishing. He’s an author-in-exile living in Barcelona, Spain with bibliophile and guillotine aficionado Chrys, their kid Franke, three dogs, and two cats. His novels are The Sum of Our Gods, Corporate High School, The Digital Storm, and The Convention of Fiends series beginning with Don’t Read This Book and continuing in You Were Warned. He’s also the author of two books of poetry: When She Leaves Me and This Uneven Universe and the non-fiction book Dear America: A Breakup Letter. Corporate High School and Dear America: A Breakup Letter were both Amazon bestsellers, and The Digital Storm was named a “Top Five Book Pick” by the San Diego Union Tribune.

Benjamin was born in Michigan, grew up in Illinois, California, and Ohio, and graduated with a BA from Whitworth University in Washington before moving to Oregon to get an MAT at George Fox University. He taught at Central High School and loved his job, especially classes like Creative Writing and Science Fiction Literature, but he enjoyed the students even more than the content. He’s a strong advocate for public education and for elevating and honoring the profession of teaching, so he served as the president of his local teachers’ union and on the board of the Oregon Education Association. He's also been named to the National Writing Project's Writer's Council. In 2013, he decided to start his own publishing company, Not a Pipe Publishing, and venture into the exciting and growing independent publishing industry.  “Like much of the union work I’ve done at the bargaining table, the meaning of a novel is a negotiation between the reader and the writer. I hope I’ve brought my readers a fair offer, something they’ll be pleased to accept.”