Ken Baumann is an American writer, publisher, and book designer. He was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1989, and grew up on a ranch outside of Abilene, Texas. For ten years, he worked in theater, film, and television, becoming most known for playing Ben Boykewich on The Secret Life of the American Teenager. He is the author of the novels Solip and Say, Cut, Map, the nonfiction book EarthBound, as well as various essays, short stories, and poems. He owns and operates Sator Press, a 501 nonprofit publishing company, and co-published No Colony, a literary journal, with Blake Butler. He is a co-founder of the iOS app Sweetspot, and an angel investor in the learning platform Memrise. He currently attends St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

August 8th, 1989 in Urbana (Age 35)