Ben Lerner

Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, poet and editor Ben Lerner earned a BA in political science and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University, and was a Fulbright scholar in Madrid. Lerner is the author of several full-length poetry collections, including “Mean Free Path” and “Angle of Yaw,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Northern California Book Award. His sonnet sequence, “The Lichtenberg Figures,” won the Hayden Carruth Award, was chosen by Library Journal as one of the year’s 12 best poetry books and was a Lannan Literary Selection. His poetry has also been included in the anthologies Best American Poetry, New Voices and 12x12: Conversations in Poetry and Poetics.