Elizabeth Harris

Elizabeth Harris is a literary translator specializing in contemporary Italian fiction. She holds graduate degrees in creative writing and literary translation from the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arkansas. Before moving to translating fulltime, Harris was a professor of creative writing at the University of North Dakota. Her translations appear in the Kenyon Review, the Missouri Review, the Literary Review, New England Review, AGNI Magazine, Words Without Borders, and many other literary journals. Her full-length translations include Mario Rigoni Stern’s novel Giacomo’s Seasons (Autumn Hill Books), Giulio Mozzi’s collection This Is the Garden (Open Letter Books), and Antonio Tabucchi’s novels Tristano Dies and For Isabel: A Mandala (both with Archipelago Books). For her translations of Tabucchi, she has received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, the Italian Prose in Translation Award, and the National Translation Award. -- National Endowment for the Arts