Jana Prikryl reads “The Runaway”

Jana Prikryl reads “The Runaway” from her collection Midwood.

Jana Prikryl’s latest book of poems, Midwood (Norton, 2022), will be coming out in paperback in 2024. Her first two collections, The After Party (Tim Duggan Books, 2016) and No Matter (Tim Duggan Books, 2019), were named New York Times Poetry Books of the Year, and her poems have appeared widely in magazines including the New Yorker, Harper’s, The Nation, the Paris Review, and Granta. Born in the former Czechoslovakia and raised in Canada from the age of six, Prikryl is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the executive editor of the New York Review of Books.