[2] His poems sometimes feature the landscape of his childhood,[3] and his writing about returning to Iowa for a visit while transitioning genders was published in Buzzfeed.

[6] In 2015, he received an MA in Library and Information Studies, also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison,[7] where he worked with The Little Magazine Collection, one of the most extensive of its kind in the United States.

[24] He has taught poetry and creative writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 826DC, Madison Public Library, District of Columbia Public Schools, Mount Holyoke College, Wick Poetry Center, Kalamazoo College,[25] Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference,[26] and elsewhere.

[27] Bendorf is a transgender man, and has used his work to discuss gender identity and transition, sometimes in humorous ways.

[33] In 2021, he joined the poetry faculty of the low-residency MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.