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

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 and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for 16 years, under George Plimpton.

She also writes The Engines of Narrative Substack and teaches writing at New York University, Queens University of Charlotte, The 24-Hour Room, and A Public Space.

Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House.

[4] Gaffney has translated four books from German:[4] 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.