In 2019 he won the Gabriel Safdie Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Vallum Poetry Award in 2022. His writing is featured or forthcoming in Second Factory, The Antigonish Review, FENCE, and elsewhere. In 2023, Benjamin graduated with Great Distinction from Concordia University's Honours in English & Creative Writing program. 

His research and writing—funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and SSHRC—centers Maritime dialects, ecological co-authorship, and visual poetry. He is currently at work on a collection of poems and on a novel while pursuing an MA in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.