about

Eleanor Goodman writes fiction, poetry, and essays, and translates contemporary Chinese literature. Her work has appeared widely in publications such as PN Review, Fiction, The Guardian, Pleiades, Acumen, Perihelion, New Delta Review, The Los Angeles Review, and on The Best American Poetry website.

After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College with degrees in English and Music Theory, she moved to China, where she wrote her first novel manuscript. She then received a Masters in creative writing from Boston University.

Her honors include two Ann Kao Foundation Translation Fellowships, the International Merit Award in Poetry from the Atlanta Review, a scholarship from Boston University, induction into Phi Beta Kappa, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgium (which she regretfully declined). She has lectured at Yale, Northeastern, Beijing University, Zhongyang Minzu University, and Boston University.

Beginning in July 2012, she will be a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, where she will be working on a book-length translation project.

Email Eleanor (顾爱玲) at eleanor@eleanorgoodman.com (中国朋友们请用中文联系).

poetry

Eleanor's poetry has been published widely in the U.S. and abroad in journals and magazines including Cha, Charles River Journal, The Best American Poetry website, New Delta Review, Eden Waters Press, The Pedestal Magazine, Ibbetson Street Press, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Amherst Review and Terrain.org.

Her collaboration with the composer Steve Potter, "Piety (IV)" won the composition prize from the Wellcome Foundation. Her teachers include Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren, and Geoffrey Hill. Her first poetry collection, Habitation is under consideration at several presses.

Selected Poems Online
Sanctum (2011) published in Cha, under consideration for a Pushcart prize
Ohio (2007) published in The Pedestal Magazine

prose

Eleanor Goodman writes both fiction and nonfiction. Her short story, "Getting to No" appeared in Fiction (2009).

As a critic, she has published reviews in Cerise Press and written a series of essays for The Best American Poetry website on topics ranging from the role of the translator to a meditation on the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise.

She was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in January 2012. She has taught writing at Grub Street and Boston University, and has served as manuscript consultant for books published by major university presses.

Her latest novel is represented by Inkwell Management, NYC.

translation

Fluent in Mandarin, Eleanor has been commissioned to translate both poetry and prose. She has published translations of contemporary Chinese poetry by a wide range of poets including Li Li, Yu Xiang, Chen Dongdong, Yan Jun, and many others. Her collection of translations of fifteen contemporary poets, The Lamp Inside the Stones, in collaboration with the poet and scholar Wang Ao, was a finalist for the 2012 Cliff Becker Book Prize and is currently seeking a press. She has also translated interviews and other prose, was translation consultant for the book Our Common Suffering: Poetry in Memory of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, and lectures frequently in China. Her translations have merited two Ann Kao Foundation Fellowships.

Her translations have appeared in Pathlight, Inventory, The Best American Poetry website, Cha, Pusteblume, Poetry International Web, Los Angeles Review, Acumen, Pleiades, Cerise Press, The Guardian, PN Review, brief, Seneca Review, and Asymptote.

Selected Translations On-line:
Bubbles by Li Li, published in Asymptote
Spinach by Zang Di, published in PN Review
A Painter's Life by Yu Xiang, published on The Best American Poetry blog.