Benjamin J. Larner (b.1990) is a disabled poet of Iraqi/Irish/Ashkenazi heritage. He won second place in the 2024 Ivan Juritz Prize, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Spread the Word and CRIPtic Arts Disabled Poets Prize (ongoing), and has been longlisted for the 2025 United Agents and Goldsmiths Pat Kavanagh Prize, the 2024 London Magazine Poetry Prize, the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize, and the 2023 Dreich Classics Chapbook Prize. Awarded a scholarship to study BMus Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, he received the Academy's Arthur Hervey Scholarship Prize upon graduation. In 2023 he commenced Goldsmiths' Creative and Life Writing MA, for which he was also awarded an academic scholarship, and graduated with a distinction. Recent publications include Agenda, Goldfish, Tears in the Fence, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, and Dreich. He currently assists Poetry London, for which he also writes and reviews.