Benson spent her childhood wrapped up in any book she could get her hands on and—as her mother likes to tell people at parties—even found a way to read in the shower. Thankfully moving on from writing bad poetry in her teens, she started to write stories about anything and everything. Tearing her from her laptop is a fairly difficult feat, though if you come bearing coffee you have a good chance. Originally from Australia, she currently lives in Spain, speaking terrible Spanish and going on as many trips to new places as she can, budget permitting. This means she mostly walks around the city she lives in.