Jenny McPhee

Jenny McPhee is the author of the novels The Center of Things, No Ordinary Matter, and A Man of No Moon, and co-authored Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Her translations include works by Anna Banti, Massimo Bontempelli, Cristina Campo, Fausta Cialente, Beppe Fenoglio, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, Curzio Malaparte, Paolo Maurensig, and Pope John Paul II. She teaches literary translation and contemporary global literature at NYU’s School of Professional Studies where she is the Academic Director of Continuing Education at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.