Idra Novey is the translator of The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto, which won a PEN Translation Fund Award. The winner of a 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Literary Review, Washington Square, and the poetry anthology Third Rail (Simon & Schuster, 2007). A graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, she has taught writing at Columbia and at the Catholic University of Chile.