Elizabeth Gaffney Biography
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.
Her first novel, Metropolis, was published in 2005. She is now at work on a second novel, The End of the Age of Wonder, and a story collection. Her stories have appeared in many little magazines, and she has translated three books from German.
Gaffney has been a resident artist at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Blue Mountain Center. She also teaches fiction at the New School and serves as the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Alex Boro, and her two daughters.
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This biography was last updated on 01/01/2011.
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