Idra Novey is the author of Those Who Knew, a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize and Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR, BBC, O Magazine, and Esquire. Her first novel Ways to Disappear received the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize, the Brooklyn Public Library Prize, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.