[1] Benz lived in London until the age of 7, when her family moved to New Jersey, then Sunset, Utah, and lastly, Centreville, Virginia.
[2][1] Benz published her first book, a short story collection titled The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead in 2017.
[1][5][6] In 2019, Benz published her first novel, The Gone Dead, about a woman who returns to her childhood home in the Mississippi Delta and uncovers information regarding the death of her father.
[7][1][2] The novel was reviewed positively in The New York Times[8] and The Washington Post.
[10][11] Benz has also published works in Granta, The New York Times, Guernica, Fence, and The American Reader, among other publications.