Elizabeth Gaffney (born December 22, 1966, in New York City) is an American novelist.

Education

She graduated from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

and holds an MFA in fiction from

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall ...

Career

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 A Public Space is an independent nonprofit publisher of an eponymous literary and arts magazine and book imprint. The organization's magazine, ''A Public Space'', is a triannual, English-language literary journal based in Brooklyn, New York. Fi ...

'' and was a staff editor of ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published new works by Jack Kerouac, ...

'' for 16 years, under

George Plimpton George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found ''The Paris Review'', as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was known for " participat ...

. She writes The Engines of Narrative

substack Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription-based content, including newsletters, podcasts, and video. It allows writers to send digital content directl ...

and teaches writing at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Queens University of Charlotte The Queens University of Charlotte is a private university in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It has approximately 1,900 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1857, the university offers 50 undergraduate majors, 58 minors, ...

, The 24-Hour Room and ''

''. Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. ''Metropolis'' was published in 2005. ''When the World Was Young'' was published in 2015. Gaffney has published short stories in literary magazines including ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussio ...

'', ''

North American Review The ''North American Review'' (''NAR'') was the first literary magazine in the United States. It was founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale (journalist), Nathan Hale and others. It was published continuously until 1940, after which i ...

'', '' Conjunctions'' and ''

Michigan Quarterly Review The ''Michigan Quarterly Review'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and ...

''. Gaffney has translated four books from German: ''The Arbogast Case'' by

Thomas Hettche Thomas Hettche (born 30 November 1964 in Treis, Hesse) is a German author. Hettche completed his ''Abitur'' at the Liebigschule Giessen, He studied German studies and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and ...

, ''The Pollen Room'' by

Zoë Jenny Zoë Jenny (born 16 March 1974 in Basel, Switzerland) is a List of Swiss people#Writers, Swiss writer. Her first novel, ''The Pollen Room'', was published in German in 1997 and has been translated into 27 languages. She was awarded the Aspekte-Lit ...

, Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany, by

Ika Hügel-Marshall Erika "Ika" Hügel-Marshall (13 March 1947 – 21 April 2022) was a German author and activist. She was active in the Afro-German women's movement organization ADEFRA (Afro-Deutsche Frauen). Her autobiography, ''Daheim unterwegs. Ein deutsche ...

and ''You Can't See the Elephants'' by Susan Kreller.

Awards and honors

She won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction.

References

External links

Official websiteA Public Space websiteThe 24-Hour Room website
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