BEN LERNER is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, as well as several books of poetry and collaborations with visual artists. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and been a finalist for National Book Award in poetry and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, among other honours. He lives in Brooklyn.