Ben Verinder lives in rural Hertfordshire. In recent years his poems have been shortlisted or commended in a variety of competitions, including the Winchester, Wolverhampton, Bedford, Ver, and Cheltenham Festival prizes. He is an amateur mycologist and a wild food forager, and the biographer of the adventurer and writer Mary Burkett. His debut pamphlet Botanicals is published by Wildfire Words in November 2021.

Ben Verinder's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.