Kevin Prufer.

Joining Idra Novey on our translation panel is the acclaimed poet (and now novelist!) Kevin Prufer. We can’t wait to welcome Kevin to Columbia.

Kevin Prufer’s newest books are The Fears and Sleepaway: a Novel. Among his eight other books are Churches, which was named one of the best ten books of 2015 by The New York Times, and How He Loved Them, which was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from the American literary press.   Prufer’s work appears widely in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Paris Review, and The New Republic, among others.   He is Professor of English at The University of Houston, where he also directs The Unsung Masters Series, a book series devoted to rediscovering great, long forgotten authors.  He also teaches at the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA Program.