Liz Gorinsky is an editor at Tor Books, where she edits a list that includes acclaimed speculative fiction authors Dave Duncan, A. J. Hartley, Mary Robinette Kowal, George Mann, Cherie Priest, Pamela Sargent, Brian Slattery, Catherynne M. Valente, and Jeff VanderMeer. She also assists editors Jim Frenkel and Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden and acquires and edits comics and short stories for Tor.com. She is a nominee for the 2009 Hugo Award in the Best Editor, Long Form category.

Liz came to Tor after studying English, psychology, and computer science at Columbia College in New York City, but draws just as frequently on the skills she learned during a three year stint as president of the Columbia University Science Fiction Society. In her free time, she volunteers with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and watches a ton of theatre. She lives in Alphabet City in Manhattan.