Idra Novey

Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. Her new book of poems, Soon & Wholly, is out this September. Her most recent novel, Take What You Need, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize. She has translated various Brazilian and Chilean authors and is the co-translator with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian’s Lean Against This Late Hour, a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Prize in 2021. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages and she’s written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and The Guardian. She teaches creative writing at Princeton University. (Photo Credit: Jesse Dittmar)