Brendan Riley’s writings and translations have appeared in, or at, a wide variety of print and web-based publications, including The Review of Contemporary Fiction, n+1, Little Star Journal, BOMBLOG, Three Percent, Asymptote, Numéro Cinq, Bookslut, Publishers Weekly, and The New York Times. His translation of Eloy Tizón’s story 'The Mercury in the Thermometers' was included in Best European Fiction 2013. He has published two books in translation: Juan Velasco Moreno’s Massacre of the Dreamers (Editorial Polibea, 2011), and Álvaro Enrigue’s acclaimed Hypothermia (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013), named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 2013.