Dennis Milam Bensie's poem "Eight Ball", was published in Greater National Society of Poets, Inc in 1980 when he was a freshman in high school. It was featured thirty years later in his memoir, SHORN: TOYS TO MEN. His short stories have been featured in Burningword Literary Journal, Chelsea Station, The Ink and Code, Everyday Fiction, Bare Back Magazine, The Round Up, Specter Magazine, Fxxk Fiction, Cease Cows, and This Zine Will Change Your Life and his essays have been seen in The Huffington Post and The Good Men Project. ONE GAY AMERICAN is his second book with Coffeetown Press, which was chosen as a finalist in both the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the Indie Excellence Book Awards. The author has been a presenter at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans and at Montana's very first gay pride festival. Bensie's latest work, FLIT: A GAY MAN'S POETRY MASHUP OF CLASSIC LITERATURE will be released by Coffeetown Press in October 2015.