ELIZABETH L. SILVER grew up in New Orleans and Dallas. She has taught ESL in Costa Rica, has taught English Literature and Writing at Drexel University and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, has worked in publishing in New York and as an attorney in Texas and California. For two years, she served as a judicial clerk for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, where she worked on several death penalty cases. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, New York, and at Circle of Misse in the Loire Valley, France. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the MA program in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in England, and Temple University Beasley School of Law, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband.