A poet and novelist. Ben Purkert’s work pops up in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Drift, The Wall Street Journal, Poetry, and he’s been featured by NPR, Esquire, and The Boston Globe. His debut novel, The Men Can’t Be Saved, was named one of Vanity Fair’s Top 20 Books of 2023. He is also the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. The former editor of Guernica’s Back Draft series, he teaches in the MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Warren Wilson.

Agent: Alia Hanna Habib (ahabib@thegernertco.com).

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