Elisabeth Sheffield grew up in the Leatherstocking Region of upstate New York. Since then, she has lived on both coasts of the United States as well as in between, and also in Northern Cyprus and Germany, where she was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1999/2000. Her short fiction has most recently appeared in Pretext, Gargoyle, The Denver Quarterly and 13th Moon, as well as Chick-Lit 2 (FC2, 1996). She has also written "Joyce's Abandoned Female Costumes, Gratefully Received" (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1998). Currently, she lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.