Ben Purkert

BA, Harvard University. MFA, New York University. Author of the novel, The Men Can't Be Saved (August 2023, Overlook/Abrams), one of Vanity Fair’s Top 20 Books of 2023, and the poetry collection For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), named one of Adroit’s Best Poetry Collections of the Year. His writing appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Slate, McSweeney's, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A former Guernica editor, he is the founder of Back Draft, an interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He currently lives in Jersey City. SLC, 2023–