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, Loom Literary Journal and Best of Australian Poems amongst others. He has also published a novel, A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man. He is the co-founder of Vre Books press, Agog poetry readings and Study experimental space. His debut poetry collection Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Giramondo, 2025) explores the complexities of new parenthood and family life, and anxieties about the future his children will grow up in. It won the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry and the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Mary Gilmore Award and the ALS Gold Medal. Ender’s work focuses on the poetics of the everyday and asserts that poetry can and should be fun.