Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for novels such as Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04, Transcription, and The Topeka School. Lerner's work has been a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Lerner has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College, where Lerner was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.