Dead Letters (Dolan-Leach) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Finger Lakes region, New York, USA
• Education—Trinity College (Dublin); American University of Paris
• Currently—lives in Paris, France


Caite Dolan-Leach is an American writer and translator currently living in Paris, France. Born in a small town in the Finger Lake region of upstate New York, she studied French in high school; by her senior year, as she claims in a Paris Review Daily interview…

French was the only class I bothered to attend with any diligence. I was too busy organizing my escape to far-flung climes; a foreign language was the most likely thing to help me secure this imagined, overseas future.

In her first "escape to farflung climes," Dolan-Leach attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She has since lived in Italy, South Africa, and France, where she attended the American University of Paris and now lives.

Dolan-Leach's first novel, Dead Letters, was published in 2017, and she has co-translated of two other novels: Orphans (U.S., 2014) by Hadrien Laroche and Newspaper (U.S., 2015) by Edouard Leve. (Adapted from various online sources.)