Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of modern Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the National Book Award and the TA First Translation Prize, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and several English PEN Translates Awards. She holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA from Columbia University. Elisabeth was a CASA Fellow at The American University in Cairo. She is also the Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.