Todd Portnowitz

Todd Portnowitz is the translator of Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf 2023, co-translated with the author), The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara (FSG 2022), Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini (FSG, 2019), and Go Tell It to the Emperor: The Selected Poems of Pierluigi Cappello (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019). 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. A Senior Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, he is also a co-founder of the Italian poetry blog Formavera and of the Brooklyn-based reading series for writer-translators, Us&Them.