TODD PORTNOWITZ is a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a translator of Italian literature. His prose translations include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated with the author; In Search of Amrit Kaur by Livia Manera Sambuy; The Greatest Invention by Silvia Ferrara; and Long Live Latin by Nicola Gardini. His poetry translations include the forthcoming Methods by Lorenzo Carlucci and Go Tell It to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello, for which he received a Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. He is a co-host of the writer-translator Us&Them Reading series, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.