Deborah Eisenberg is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of honors including the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Eisenberg has published four collections of stories: TRANSACTIONS IN A FOREIGN CURRENCY (1986), UNDER THE 82ND AIRBORNE (1992), ALL AROUND ATLANTIS (1997) and TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES (2006). Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as THE STORIES (SO FAR) OF DEBORAH EISENBERG (1997). All four volumes were reprinted in 2010 in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF DEBORAH EISENBERG (2010). She is a professor of writing at Columbia University.

Books by Deborah Eisenberg

All Around Atlantis

by Deborah Eisenberg

Small masterpieces...[a] dazzling collection....Like Alice Munro, virtually her only equal in the field, Deborah Eisenberg here seems incapable of writing a bad short story...She focuses on misfits, people who don't feel at home in the world. So skilled is she at developing these characters as engagingly "ordinary" that we find ourselves identifying with them without realizing how we got there....Eisenberg's writing at times approaches the beauty of a line of poetry. She manipulates her readers with a master's blend of humor and poignancy. Her stories are wondrous....