Elizabeth Gaffney is a native Brooklynite. She graduated with honors from Vassar College and holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College; she also studied philosophy and German at Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich. From 1989 to 2005, she worked as a staff editor at George Plimpton's Paris Review, where she interviewed and edited some of our most important contemporary writers, including Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and Lorrie Moore.
Gaffney has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. Her stories have appeared in many little magazines, and she has translated three books from German. Her first novel, Metropolis, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. She is now at work on a second novel, The War Effort, and a story collection.
When she's not writing or visiting the zoo with her daughter, Elizabeth now works as the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space.