Idra Novey is the author of TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and one of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year. The novel is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century.
Her earlier novels include THOSE WHO KNEW and WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She’s written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Take What You Need (Viking Books, 2023)
Those Who Knew (Viking Books, 2018)
Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown & Company, 2016)
Full-length poetry collections
Soon and Wholly, Wesleyan University Press, September 2024
Exit, Civilian: Poems. University of Georgia Press. 2012.
The Next Country Alice James Books, 2008.
Chapbooks and cahiers
The Next Country (Poetry Society of America, 2005)
Clarice: The Visitor, with images by Erica Baum (Sylph Editions, 2014)
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