Ender Başkan

Ender Başkan is a Melbourne-based poet, novelist, small-press publisher and bookseller. The winner of the 2021 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize, his poems have been published in HEAT, Meanjin, Cordite, Unusual Work, Rabbit, Loom and Best of Australian Poems, amongst others.

‍

He has also published a novel, A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man and is the co-founder of Vre Books press, Agog poetry readings and Study experimental space. His debut poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers, published by Giramondo, was shortlisted for the 2026 Victoria Premiers Literary Awards.