Elizabeth Gaffney

Elizabeth Gaffney (born in New York City, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist.She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College.She is the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for 16 years, under George Plimpton.She teaches writing at New York University, Queens University of Charlotte, A Public Space and The Center for Fiction.

Her first novel, Metropolis, was published by Random House in 2005.Her second novel, When the World Was Young, was published in August 2014, also by Random House.

Gaffney has published short stories in literary magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Conjunctions and Michigan Quarterly Review. She won the 2019Lawrence Prize for Fiction.

She has also translated four books from German: The Arbogast Case by Thomas Hettche, The Pollen Room by Zoë Jenny, Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany, by Ika Hügel-Marshall and You Can't See the Elephants by Susan Kreller.