About Jana Prikryl
Jana Prikryl, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1975, is a poet, critic, and editor. In 2020, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Following graduation, Prikryl worked at The New York Review of Books, initially as an intern. She became a senior editor, and in February 2021, she was named executive editor.Her poetry and criticism has been published in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, the Nation, and the Baffler, in two collections — The After Party and No Matter, and three anthologies, Best American Poetry 2020, Best Canadian poetry 2020, and 'The unprofessionals : new American writing from the Paris Review (2015).
Her first book, The After Party was published in 2016. Reviewers considered her a “notably resourceful writer of autobiography”, with an “understated sensibility” Themes include the Canadian landscape, “Ideas of in-betweenness”, childhood and folklore. No Matter (2019) was mainly written while a 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Described as “restless, unsettled, elusive and dark” by the Toronto Star, No Matter was named one of the best poetry books of the year by the New York Times, and was chosen as one of the best books of the year 2019 in the New Statesman.
Prikryl won a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a 2017–2018 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Prikryl has received a fellowship from Yaddo, and a Creative Writing Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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