Elizabeth L. Silver holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and a JD from Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has taught ESL in Costa Rica, worked in book publishing in New York, and was an adjunct professor of English composition and literature at Drexel University and St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She has been the recipient of several grants, including a residency at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY, where she was chosen to receive their NEA funding, as well as from the British Center for Literary Translation to be a fellow at the Literary and Translation Workshop in Tarazona, Spain. She has also worked as a Briefing and Research Attorney for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, and is licensed to practice law in the state of California.