Birth City
Fort Collins
Birth State
CO
Current Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Occupation(s)
Missile Defense - Civil Service
Biography

14er Climber, Rocket Scientist, Published Novelist, Movie Connoisseur, and Amateur Photographer, Benjamin M. Weilert was born in Colorado in 1985. While he went to school for Mechanical Engineering (eventually earning a Master’s Degree), he has found science to be interesting enough to write fiction about it. He likes to classify his novels as “science fantasy,” wherein the science is real and (semi) accurate, but portrayed in a fantasy setting to make it accessible to non scientific readers. If you want stories that are surreptitiously educational, he’s your man. He currently lives in Colorado Springs and his most recent book is Fourteener Father, a memoir of climbing all of Colorado's 14,000-foot mountains with his dad.

Education/Training
"Creative Fiction Writing" course at the Colorado School of Mines
Published Works
"Clicking for a Reason" (The Colorado School of Mines Oredigger newspaper, Sept…
"A Cool Way to Detect Neutrinos" (The Colorado School of Mines Oredigger newspa…
"Fact vs. Truth: A Fight to the Death" (short story)(Colorado School of Mines H…
"Jurassic Manor" (short story)(The Midnight Writers' Anthology, 2016)
"Soul Photographer" (short story)(The Midnight Writers' Anthology, 2018)
"Aria in White: First Movement" (poetry)(Colorado School of Mines High Grade Jo…
"Genetics" (poetry)(Colorado School of Mines High Grade Journal of the Arts, 20…
Published Works Book Jackets
Organizations
The Midnight Writers - National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), municipal liaison for the Colorado Springs region
Speaker Availability
Yes
Speaker Topics
Self-publishing (writing, editing, formatting, cover design, etc.) - National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) - Submitting to short story anthologies