Ben Purkert author biography, plus links to books by Ben Purkert.

Ben Purkert

Ben Purkert is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. His work appears in The New Yorker, the Nation, and the Kenyon Review, among others. He is the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and New York University, and he currently teaches at Rutgers. Men Can't Be Saved is his first novel.

This biography was last updated on 08/01/2023.

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