Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award-nominated author of five books, most recently Satan’s School for Girls and Other Works (Goldfish Press, 2026). His writing has appeared in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The MacGuffin, Sensitive Skin, Hobart, Columbia Review, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Seattle with his children. You can learn more at benjaminschmittpoetry.com.
Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break perfectly captures the disillusioned 1990s youth who built their own communities around extreme sports and defended their authenticity from corporate control.
