Ben Tufnell

Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. He has written fiction for many years with publications in Conjunctions, Litro, Lunate, Nightjar Press, Storgy and Structo, amongst others, and was included in Best British Short Stories 2024. He has been longlisted or highly commended for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, The White Review Short Story Prize, the Disquiet Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for short fiction. His debut novel, The North Shore, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown) in 2023.  

Previously a curator at Tate, Tufnell is a founding director of Parafin, an independent gallery. He has published widely on modern and contemporary art, in particular on artforms that engage with ideas of landscape and nature.