Idra Novey

Idra Novey is an American poet, professor, and translator. She is the author of Exit, Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series Winner, and The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008), which received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and a starred review in Publishers Weekly,. 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, and The Clean Shirt of It, for which she was awarded a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant. She has published poems, translations and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Slate, The Paris Review, AGNI Online, Ploughshares, BOMB, Mid-American Review, and The Believer.

Novey teaches in the creative writing program at Columbia University, and is the executive director of the Columbia Center for Literary Translation. She also teaches in the Bard College Prison Initiative. She is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board, an editor for Rattapallax, and lives in New York.''

Recognition
Her honors include the 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers, and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Awards

 * 2009 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation
 * 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award
 * 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center
 * 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series Fellowship

Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008)
 * Exit, Civilian (University of Georgia Press, National Poetry Series, 2012)

Short Story
 * "The Man from the Ad," (Guernica Magazine, 2011 http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/3014/idra_novey_the_man_from_the_ad_9_1_11/)

Chapbooks
 * The Next Country (Poetry Society of America, 2005)

Translations
 * On Elegance While Sleeping, by Viscount Lazcano 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)