Jana Prikryl

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Jana Prikryl

Jana Prikryl was born in the Czech Republic and moved to Canada at the age of six. She is the author of three books of poems, “Midwood,” “The After Party,” and “No Matter.” The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Prikryl lives in Brooklyn and is an editor at “The New York Review of Books.”