Elizabeth Gaffney

She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College.

She is the founder and host of the virtual writers' space The 24-Hour Room, 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 writes The Engines of Narrative substack and teaches writing at New York University, Queens University of Charlotte, The 24-Hour Room and A Public Space.

Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. Metropolis^[1] was published in 2005.^[2] When the World Was Young was published in 2015.^[3]

Gaffney has published short stories in literary magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Conjunctions and Michigan Quarterly Review.^[4]

Gaffney has translated four books from German:^[4] 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.

She won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction.^[4]