TODD PORTNOWITZ (1986) was born in Melbourne, FL and lives and works in New York City. He holds a BA in English from the University of Florida and an MA in Italian Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His prose translations include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf, 2023, translated with the author), In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy (FSG, 2023), The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara (FSG, 2022), Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini (FSG, 2019), as well as of two young-adult novels with the Italian publisher Mondadori. His poetry translations include Midnight in Spoleto by Paolo Valesio (Fomite, 2018), Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and the forthcoming Methods by Lorenzo Carlucci (Fomite, 2024). He has received honors from the Academy of American Poets (Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship, 2015, Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome) and the Bread Loaf Translators Conference. His poetry, essays, and poetry translations from and into Italian have appeared in AGNI, Asymptote, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poesia, Poetry and Southwest Review. An Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, he is also a co-founder of the Italian poetry blog Formavera and co-director of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them.