Ender Başkan writes poetry and prose. His poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Giramondo, 2025) won the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the Mary Gilmore Award. He is a bookseller, co-founder of Vre Books press and published the novel A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man (Vre Books, 2019). Ender’s work focuses on the poetics of the everyday and asserts that poetry can and should be fun.