Ben Fowlkes

Ben Fowlkes is a Senior Writer for The Athletic. He has covered mixed martial arts professionally since 2006, and his sports writing has also appeared in Fight Magazine, MMAFighting.com, Sports Illustrated online, USA Today, MMAjunkie.com and a bunch of other websites and magazines about fighting. You don’t really want him to list them all. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, which is where he met Chad Dundas, who drove around listening to sports talk radio all the time but who otherwise seemed like a decent dude. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Crazyhorse, and Best American Short Stories 2015. He lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife and two daughters. Sometimes he runs into Chad at a bar.