Idra Novey is the author of Those Who Knew, an Indie Next Pick and Amazon Best Book of the Month, and Ways to Dis­ap­pear, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize, the Brooklyn Library Prize for Fiction, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Her fic­tion and poetry have been trans­lated into ten lan­guages and she's written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Magazine. She's translated the work of several prominent Brazilian writers, most recently Clarice Lispector's novel The Pas­sion Accord­ing to G.H.