Todd Portnowitz is a translator of Italian literature and a senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf, where he publishes a range of history, pop culture, fiction, and poetry, with published and forthcoming books from Adam Ross, Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Keza MacDonald, David Sibley, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Ed Conway, Mária Elena Morán, Philippe Sands, Lee Seong-bok, Fergus Bordewich, Zachary Small, Bud Smith, Peter Cozzens, and the Estate of Albert Camus. His prose translations include Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (co-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 reading series Us&Them, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, son, and dachshund Gracie.