Ben Groner III is the author of the poetry collection Dust Storms May Exist (Madville Publishing), winner of the 2025 Storytrade Book Award for Poetry, the 2025 NYC Big Book Award for Poetry: Journeys, Memory, & the Self, and the 2024 American Fiction Award for Religious Poetry. It was also named the Best Poetry Collection of 2024 by The Nashville Scene.

His work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and the Orison Anthology, and has appeared in Peatsmoke Journal, Whale Road Review, GASHER, South Carolina Review, Rust & Moth, Cheat River Review, The Shore, Shooter Literary Magazine, Stirring, Novus Literary Arts Journal, 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.