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Idra Novey is an American poet, professor, and translator. She is author of The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008), which was a Kinereth Gensler Award winner and received a starred review in Publishers Weekly, and the translation The Clean Shirt of It, which won a PEN Translation Fund Award, and has had her poems, translations and reviews published in literary journals and magazines including Slate, The Paris Review, AGNI Online, Ploughshares, BOMB, Mid-American Review, and The Believer. 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.

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.

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