Eleanor Goodman writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. 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. She is currently at work on a novel, and collaborating on a book of translations of contemporary Chinese poetry.
After graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College with degrees in English and Music Theory, she moved to China, where she wrote a novel and traveled the countryside by train. She returned to the States to attend the creative writing program at Boston University, from which she received a Masters degree.
Her honors include an Ann Kao Foundation Translation Fellowship, the International Merit Award from the Atlanta Review, a teaching scholarship from Boston University, and induction into Phi Beta Kappa. She was offered a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgium, which she declined much to everyone's surprise, including her own. She has lectured at Yale, Northeastern, Beijing University 北京大学, Zhongyang Minzu University 中央民族大学, and Boston University.