Elisabeth (Liz) Lauffer is a German-English literary translator based in the US. She received her B.A. in German Studies from Wesleyan University and her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her career in literary translation began in 2014, when she won the Gutekunst Prize for Emerging Translators.

In addition to her book publications, Liz’s translations have appeared in No Man’s Land and the Asymptote blog. She has participated in the ViceVersa Translation Workshop at Übersetzerhaus Looren, Frankfurt International Translators program, the KulturKontakt Austria Artists-in-Residence program, the Art OMI: Writers Translation Lab, and the Literary Colloquium of Berlin summer academy.

Get in touch at hallo@elisabethlauffer.com.