A woman with wavy blonde hair, wearing a black top and a pearl necklace, smiles softly while looking slightly to the side against a plain background.

Jenny McPhee

Jenny McPhee is the author of the novels The Center of Things, No Ordinary Matter, and A Man of No Moon. Her translations include books by the authors Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, Curzio Malaparte, Elsa Morante, Anna Maria Ortese, and Pope John Paul II. She teaches creative writing and literary translation at NYU and Princeton. She co-founded the Bronx Academy of Letters, a NYC public school, in 2003. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.