Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner is a novelist, poet, and critic. His books include the novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:14, the poetry collections The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw, and Mean Free Path, as well as several collaborations with visual artists. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, Lerner has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among many other honors. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College.