Elizabeth Gaffney 164HicksStreet,apt.2

Brooklyn,NewYork11201elizgaffney@gmail.com

917-716-3401EDUCATION Brooklyn College Brooklyn, New York — M.F.A. in fiction, 1997 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York — B.A. , 1988 General Honors and Departmental Honors in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa Ludwig-Maximillians Universität Munich, Germany, 1989 to 1990 Graduate work in philosophy

NOVELS When the World Was Young, Random House, 2014 Metropolis, Random House, 2005 (published in the U.K. in 2005 and Germany in

2006); Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; excerpted in The New York Times, April 10, 2005 SHORT STORIES “Jerusalem,” North American Review, summer, 1999, Finalist, Pushcart

Prize, 2000; “Quick,” Brooklyn Review, fall 1996; “The Number Thirty-one,” Colorado Review, fall 1998; “The Hive,” Reading Room, 2001, “The Passion After Five,” The Mississippi Review, 2002; “On the Circulation of the Blood,” Epiphany, 2003; “Recluse,” Virginia Quarterly Review, 2006. "Night Stalker," The Lifted Brow, 2013. "Yes," A Public Space, issue 21, 2014. "Where You Go I'll Go," Conjunctions 66, forthcoming spring 2016.

REVIEWS, ARTICLES, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS NY Times Book Review, NY Times,

NY Observer, NY Newsday, The Paris Review (interviews with Günter Grass, David McCulloch, Lorrie Moore and Andrea Barrett), A Public Space, Oprah.com, HuffPost.com, Bookforum, Publishers Weekly, Forward, Glamour, More, BKLYN, Brooklyn Was Mine TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Faculty, Writing Program — Columbia University, 2014 to present Adjunct Faculty, Writing Program — New York University, 2014 to present Adjunct Faculty, Riggio Writing and Democracy Program — The New School, 2007 – 2014 Adj. Asst. Professor, Fiction & Nonfiction Workshops — New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 1997 to 2007 Teaching Excellence Award, 2006 Visiting Faculty — Stonecoast Writers Conference, University of Southern Maine, 2003 Workshop Leader — Media Bistro & Salon.com writing workshops, 2003 to 2005 Instructor of English — Brooklyn College, 1995 to 1997 PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE Editor at Large — A Public Space, 2005 to present Editor at Large — The Paris Review, 1995 to 2004 Managing Editor —The Paris Review, 1995 to 1998 Senior, Associate & Assistant Editor, The Paris Review, 1989 to 1995 Free-Lance Book Editor — Fiction, nonfiction and translations, 1995 to 2003 Free-Lance Copy Editor — New York Magazine, 1995 to 1996 Free-Lance Translator — Munich, Germany, 1989 to 1990

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TRANSLATIONS FROM GERMAN You Can't See the Elephants by Susan Kreller, Putnam, 2015 The Arbogast Case by Thomas Hettche, FSG, 2003 Invisible Woman by Ika Hügel-Marshall, Continuum International, 2000 The Pollen Room by Zoë Jenny, Simon & Schuster, 1998. “Given” by Alissa Walser, in Open City, Summer, 1999; excerpt from "The Arbogast Case," excerpt, Chicago Review, summer 2002

FELLOWSHIPS Brooklyn Historical Society/Getty Foundation — Interpreting Brooklyn Fellowship, 2008 to 2010 National Council on U.S.-China Relations — Young Leaders Forum, 2003 to 2007 The Corporation of Yaddo — Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 Literaturhaus Frankfurt — Translation Conference, 2004 The Macdowell Colony — Peterborough, N.H., 1997 and 1998 The Medway Institute — Goose Creek, S.C., 2003 and 2004 The Blue Mountain Center — Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., 1999, 2000 Literarisches Colloquium Berlin — Translators Fellowship, 2002, 1996 PRIZE JURIES Literature Committee Panelist — The Corporation of Yaddo, 2006 to present Prize Jurist — The Morning News Rooster Award, 2007 Co-Chair — NY Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, 2004 to 2007 Prize Jurist — NY Public Library Young Lions Award, 2002 to 2007 LANGUAGES Fluent in German BOARDS The Corporation of Yaddo — 2009 to present A Public Space — 2005 to present The Paris Review Foundation — 1999 to 2004 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS PEN AWP