I’m a writer, translator (from Italian), and editor at Spiegel & Grau. I’ve written for The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Point, Literary Hub (where I was formerly an editor), and other publications.

My nonfiction debut, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick and a TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2024. It will be published by Chatto & Windus (UK) in February 2025.

My translation of Igiaba Scego’s novel Beyond Babylon (Two Lines Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize, the National Translation Award, and more. I’ve also contributed to two anthologies: Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (Tilted Axis Press, 2022) and The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2019). In 2021, I received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in translation.

I formerly served on the board of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and am currently an advisory editor for The Paris Review.

I was also one of the judges for the 2024 International Booker Prize.