Johnny Lorenz

Johnny Lorenz (b. 1972), son of Brazilian immigrants, is a poet, translator, critic, and professor of English at Montclair State. His book of poetry, Education by Windows, was published by Poets & Traitors Press (2018). His translations of Clarice Lispector’s A Breath of Life (2012), finalist for the Best Translated Book Award, and The Besieged City (2019), listed as one of the best books of 2019 by Vanity Fair, were published by New Directions. He recently received a PEN/Heim grant in support of his translation of Notebook of Return by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira.