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.