Ben Purk­ert’s writ­ing has appeared in The New York­er, The Nation, Poet­ry, Ploughshares, Keny­on Review, Tin House, and else­where. His poet­ry col­lec­tion, For the Love of End­ings, was named one of Adroit’s Best Poet­ry Books of the Year. He holds degrees from Har­vard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fel­low. He teach­es cre­ative writ­ing at Rut­gers. The Men Can’t Be Saved is his debut novel.