Ben Lerner

BEN LERNER is a poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation fellow, and a Guggenheim fellow. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. In 2011 he won the Preis der Stadt Müenster für Internationale Poesie, the first American to receive this honor. He is the author of two novels, Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path, and an essay, The Hatred of Poetry. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.