Idra Novey is the author of the nov­el Ways to Dis­ap­pear, win­ner of the Sami Rohr Prize, the Brook­lyn Eagles Prize, and a final­ist for the Los Ange­les Times Book Prize for First Fic­tion. Her work has been trans­lat­ed into ten lan­guages and she’s writ­ten for the New York Times, the Los Ange­les Times, and the Paris Review. She’s trans­lat­ed four books from Span­ish and Por­tuguese, most recent­ly Clarice Lispec­tor’s nov­el The Pas­sion Accord­ing to G.H. She is cur­rent­ly the Writer-in-Res­i­dence in NYU’s Stel­la Adler Stu­dio of Acting.