Elizabeth L. Silver holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MFA 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 funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to be a writer-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY 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.

Excerpts from her first novel, Searching for Anapiros, can be found in Concertina. She is currently at work at her second novel about a woman on death row.