Ben Purkert’s debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, is forthcoming from Abrams/Overlook in August 2023. His poetry collection, For the Love of Endings (Four Way Books, 2018), was named one of Adroit’s Best Poetry Books of the Year. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate, Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow. He is the editor of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers.
Feel free to reach out directly at bpurkert@gmail.com.
Agent: Alia Hanna Habib (ahabib@thegernertco.com).
Publicists: Taryn Roeder (troeder@abramsbooks.com); Kathleen Carter (kathleen@kathleencartercommunications.com).