Benny Joe Diaz, a.k.a. Broken Pencil, is a human writer with compassion for the world. Born in 1963 in Texas and at the age of two moved to Missouri. Since the age of twelve he was living in Kansas. In his late teens, he started a partner roofing business and started learning all types of construction. Worked for a glass plant started in 1989 and had ten years' service. Still doing construction, he learned to work with kids with special needs. In 1989, he started writing poetry and joined a poetry workshop in 2000. He appeared in Best Poems and Poets in 2005 and 2006. He was just writing in his journal and having a hard time coping with life and putting it all down, putting it in God's hands, and not letting God do all the work for he was also a fighter. He says he is shy, but people see him as outgoing.
