Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University.

His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, McSweeney's, Time, and Conjunctions.

His latest book, Notes From The Fog: Stories, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018.

[1] His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah.

[3][4] Marcus's influences include Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Donald Barthelme, Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Bernhard, Padgett Powell, J. M. Coetzee, David Ohle, Kōbō Abe, Garielle Lutz, and George Saunders.