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Idra Novey
Idra Novey is the author of the poetry collection The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008).

She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the PEN Translation Fund. Her recent translations include the selected poems of Brazilian writer Manoel de Barros and a novel by Emilio Lascano Tegui, On Elegance While Sleeping, both forthcoming in fall 2010.

She currently directs the Center for Literary Translation at Columbia University.




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