Ben Groner III is the author of the poetry collection Dust Storms May Exist, forthcoming from Madville Publishing in May 2024. His poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and the Orison Anthology, and has appeared in Whale Road Review, GASHER, The South Carolina Review, The Shore, Rust & Moth, Cheat River Review, Shooter Literary Magazine, Stirring, Broad River Review, Midway Journal, One, Still: The Journal, Delta Poetry Review, Louisiana Literature, Expanded Field, Braided Way Magazine, Appalachian Review, The Sea Letter, Manzano Mountain Review, The Bookends Review, Sweet Tree Review, New Mexico Review, OpenDoor Magazine, Third Wednesday, Dust Poetry Magazine, Amethyst Review, Gnarled Oak, Duality, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Truth Serum Press, Speckled Trout Review, The Magnolia Review, Fourth & Sycamore, and elsewhere.

He is a graduate of the Columbia Publishing Course (2022) and Texas A&M University (2014), where he received a BA in Creative Writing and the Gordone Award for undergraduate poetry. He was formerly a bookseller at Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, and is now a college publishing sales rep for W. W. Norton & Company.