BEN PURKERT is the author of the poetry collection For the Love of Endings. His work has appeared in El neoyorquino, La Nación, y The Kenyon Review, among others. He is also the founder of Back Draft, a Guernica magazine interview series focused on revision and the creative process. He holds degrees from Harvard and New York University, and he currently teaches at Rutgers University. The Men Can’t Be Saved: A Novel (The Overlook Press), is his debut work of fiction.