In this craft talk, acclaimed author, poet and translator Idra Novey will teach you how multiple points of view (POV) can help to shape character and narrative. Specifically, we will look at the way a character's blind spots can be revealed in POV shifts, and also what Fernanda Melchor calls the "experimental ego that is character development." What happens in a novel when you are experimenting with multiple egos at once? How do those simultaneous experiments shape the narrative that develops? 

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Idra Novey is the author of the novel Those Who Knew, a finalist for the 2019 Clark Fiction Prize, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and Best Book of the Year with over a dozen media outlets, including NPR, Esquire, BBC, and Kirkus Review. Her first novel, Ways to Disappear, received the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize, the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into twelve languages and she’s written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Paris Review. She is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Poets & Writ­ers Mag­a­zine, and the PEN Trans­la­tion Fund. Her works as a translator include Clarice Lispector’s novel The Pas­sion Accord­ing to G.H. and a co-translation with Ahmad Nadalizadeh of Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian, Lean Against This Late Hour.