Reading: Idra Novey

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Idra Novey is the author of the debut novel Ways to Disappear, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Brooklyn Eagles Prize. Her poetry collections include Exit, Civilian, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2011 National Poetry Series, The Next Country, a finalist for the 2008 Foreword Book of the Year Award, and Clarice: The Visitor, a collaboration with the artist Erica Baum. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into eight languages and she’s written for The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered, New York Magazine and The Paris Review. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writers Magazine, the PEN Translation Fund, the Poetry Foundation, and the Poetry Society of America. She’s also translated the work of several prominent Brazilian writers, most recently Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. She’s taught at Princeton University, Columbia, NYU, Fordham, the Catholic University of Chile, and in the Bard Prison Initiative. This Fall she is the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at LIU Brooklyn.