Idra Novey

Idra Novey
Born	Western Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation	Writer, Poet, Translator
Nationality	American
Education	BA, Barnard College, 2000[2] MFA, Columbia University

Idra Novey is an American novelist, poet, and translator. She is the author of the novel Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown & Company, 2016), a 2016 Discover Great New Writers Pick with Barnes & Noble. Her poetry books include Exit, Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series Winner, and The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008), winner of the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award. She is also the translator of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2012), On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui (Dalkey Archive, 2010), shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award for 2010, Birds for a Demolition by Manoel de Barros (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011) and The Clean Shirt of It, for which she was awarded a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into seven languages and she’s received awards from Poets & Writers, the Poetry Foundation, the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Published works

Novels

• Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown & Company, 2016)

Full-length Poetry Collections

• Exit, Civilian (University of Georgia Press, National Poetry Series, 2012)
• The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008)

Chapbooks

• The Next Country (Poetry Society of America, 2005)

Translations

• The Passion According to G.H., by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2012; Penguin Modern Classics, 2014)
• On Elegance While Sleeping, by Viscount Lascano Tegui (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
• Birds for a Demolition, by Manoel de Barros (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010)
• The Clean Shirt of It, by Paulo Henriques Britto (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007)

Short Stories

• "The Man from the Ad" (Guernica Magazine, 2011)
• "The Specialist" (StoryQuarterly, 2015)

Recent Poems

• "Still Life With Invisible Canoe" (Academy of American Poets, 2015)
• "On Returning to My Hometown in 2035" (Poetry Foundation, 2014)
• "The Duck Shit at Clarion Creek" (Poetry Foundation, 2014)
• "House-Sitting With Approaching Fire" (Guernica, 2014)
• "The Visitor" (Poetry Foundation, 2012)
• "La Prima Victoria" (Poetry Foundation, 2012)

Honors and awards

• 2009 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation^[3]
• 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award^[4]
• 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center^[5]
• 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series Fellowship^[6]

References

1. Brown, Emma. "Culture: The Mystery Writer," Interview (Dec. 31, 2015).
2. "Celebrating Barnard's Artists," Barnard Magazine (Dec. 5, 2014)
3. FY 2009 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects
4. Alice James Books > Past Award Winners
5. PEN American Center > Translation Fund Grants
6. Poetry Society of America > Chapbook Fellowships > Past Winners

External links.

• Publishers Weekly Review of Ways to Disappear
• Author Page > Idra Novey > Little, Brown/Hachette
• Author Page > Idra Novey > Alice James Books
• Author Page > Idra Novey > BOA Editions, Ltd.
• Poems: PEN American Center > Idra Novey on Public Lives/Private Lives
• Audio: Slate Magazine > A Weekly Poem, Read by the Author > Idra Novey, Definition of a Stranger
• Video: Idra Novey Reading for Alice James Books at AWP Conference
• Interview: How a Poem Happens > September 11, 2009 > Idra Novey
• Reviews by Idra Novey: The Believer > Contributors > Two Reviews by Idra Novey
• Faculty Bio: Columbia University > School of the Arts > Creative Writing