Ben Platt is an editor. Manuscripts, proposals, and articles Ben edited are published by Penguin Press, Simon & Schuster, Riverhead Books, W. W. Norton & Company, Picador, Melville House, Verso, Basic Books, St. Martin’s Press, Bold Type Books, HarperCollins, Pluto Books, SFMOMA, Public Books, Asian Labour Review, JSTOR Daily, New_ Public, Books & Ideas, Gotham, NEUT, Sydney Review of Books, Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, Belknap Press, University of Chicago Press, and Princeton University Press; they are forthcoming from, among others, University of Minnesota Press, Manchester University Press, Princeton University Press, and Bold Type Books.

Books edited by Ben have been selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Financial Times Best Book of the Summer, New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year, as well as awarded the 2022 Bancroft Prize and longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ben has spoken about editing and publishing at Columbia University, New York University, University of British Columbia, University of Connecticut, DePauw University, Object Lessons Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, and Harvard University.

Ben is editorial director at Public Books.