Benjamin Lerner Biography

Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet novelist essayist and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar a finalist for the National Book Award a Howard Foundation Fellow a Guggenheim Fellow and he is currently a MacArthur Fellow. Lerner teaches at Brooklyn College where he was named a Distinguished Professor of English in 2016.
Lerner was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of 52 sonnets The Lichtenberg Figures.In 2004 Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry.
He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book Angle of Yaw which was published in 2006. It was named a finalist for the National Book Award. Lerner's third poetry collection Mean Free Path was published in 2010.
Lerner's first novel Leaving the Atocha Station published in 2011 won the Believer Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction and the New York Public Library's Young Lions prize. Excerpts of Lerner's second novel 10:04 won the Terry Southern Prize from The Paris Review.

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