{{short description|American novelist}} {{infobox writer | name = Elizabeth Gaffney | image = Elizabethgaffney25.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|12|22}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | occupation = Novelist | education = Vassar College (AB)<br>Brooklyn College (MFA) | caption = Elizabeth Gaffney, 2024 | notable_works = Metropolis, When the World Was Young | awards = The Lawrence Prize for Fiction | website = {{URL|elizabethgaffney.net}} }} '''Elizabeth Gaffney''' (born December 22, 1966, in New York City) is an American novelist.
==Education== She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gaffney |first=Elizabeth |date=January 23, 2023 |title=Creative Writing, M.F.A |url=https://www.brooklyn.edu/academics/programs/creative-writing-mfa/ |url-status=live |archive-date=23 January 2025 |access-date=7 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123193757/https://www.brooklyn.edu/academics/programs/creative-writing-mfa// |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Career== Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. ''Metropolis''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gaffney |first1=Elizabeth |title=Metroplis |url=http://www.elizabethgaffney.net/books.html |website=elizabethgaffney.net |publisher=Random House |accessdate=12 November 2020}}</ref> was published in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Metropolis |work=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=7 June 2021 |url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elizabeth-gaffney/metropolis-2/ }}</ref> ''When the World Was Young'' was published in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=When the World Was Young |work=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=7 June 2021 |url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elizabeth-gaffney/when-the-world-was-young-gaffney/ }}</ref>
Gaffney has published short stories in literary magazines including ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''North American Review'', ''Conjunctions'' and ''Michigan Quarterly Review''.<ref name="macdowell" />
Gaffney has 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.
==Awards and honors== She won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction.<ref name="macdowell">{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Gaffney |publisher=MacDowell |access-date=7 June 2021 |url= https://www.macdowell.org/artists/elizabeth-gaffney }}</ref>
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==External links == *[http://www.elizabethgaffney.net/ Official website] *[http://www.apublicspace.org/ A Public Space website] *[http://www.the24hourroom.org/ The 24-Hour Room website]
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