10-16 | Meet the Author – Josef Benson

About this event

In 1988, a thirteen-year-old girl named Meko arrived in Milwaukee as a refugee from Thailand. Not long after, she met Jeffrey Dahmer—the notorious serial killer and sex offender who, between 1978 and 1991, murdered and dismembered at least seventeen men and boys. Over the course of three years, Meko, along with Laotian victim Konerak Sinthasomphone, developed an unlikely and disturbing friendship with Dahmer, offering a rare, firsthand perspective on one of America’s most infamous criminals. Based on author Josef Benson’s interviews with Meko, Infinity Land: The Untold Story of Jeffrey Dahmer presents exclusive, never-before-revealed information that radically reshapes our understanding of Dahmer, his crimes, and the city that enabled them. Josef Benson is a professor of Literatures and Languages at the University of Wisconsin Parkside where he offers courses in contemporary literature, African American literature, poetry writing, fiction writing, and composition. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Infinity Land: The Untold Story of Jeffrey Dahmer (University Press of Mississippi 2026) and Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels (University Press of Mississippi 2022) for which he and co-author Doug Singsen were nominated for the prestigious Will Eisner Comics Industry Award. He holds creative writing degrees from Missouri State University and the University of South Florida as well as a Ph.D. in literature also from the University of South Florida. For more information, visit josefbenson.com.