Ben Berman

Author & Poet
A 2023 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

Writing While Parenting

“Writing While Parenting, Ben Berman’s wonderful new collection, is a striking work of wit, wisdom, and authenticity… These essays are full of surprises, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary at every turn."
January O’Neil, author of Rewilding
"Ben Berman's witty, brainy, soulful look at writing-while-parenting will speak to every parent – and every writer – committed to understanding the way that having kids raises the stakes for – and loosens the reins of – how we speak and write."
Elisa New, director and host of Poetry in America
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Other Books by Ben Berman

"In this sharply-observed, vulnerable, and witty series of triptychs – which span an ocean and the seasons of a life – Ben Berman slyly explores fragmentation and disconnection as the core of who we are."
Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men and All This Talk of Love
(for THEN AGAIN)
"Ben Berman’s fine, clever poems are never merely clever. Their frisky formal play is finally and importantly about the finding of forms that might adequately contain our feelings."
Lawrence Raab, Poet
(for FIGURING IN THE FIGURE)
“Reflective in nature, these poems use form–from slant-rhyming couplets to prose poems–to limn the tensions of readjustment, and mine memory for stories that keep the author rooted to a place that will forever and never be his."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
(for STRANGE BORDERLANDS)
"Situated somewhere between poetry and prose, memoir and philosophy, the familiar and the foreign, these mesmerising vignettes possess an uncanny power.”
Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish
(for THEN AGAIN)
"Stand your ground and make thoughtful observations—carefully, and with aplomb. Ben Berman repeatedly delivers on this not-so-easy dictum."
Foreword Reviews
(for FIGURING IN THE FIGURE)

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Then Again
Figuring in the Figure
Strange Borderlands

About Ben

Ben Berman is the author of four books – Strange Borderlands, Figuring in the Figure, Then Again and Writing While Parenting, a 2023 TLS Book of the Year. He has won the Peace Corps Award for the Best Book of Poetry, has been shortlisted twice for the Massachusetts Book Awards and has received awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Poetry Club and Somerville Arts Council.

Ben has been teaching for over twenty years and currently teaches creative writing classes at Brookline High School. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and two daughters.

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