Award-Winning Short Story Author Heading to Columbia

Deborah Eisenberg, the award-winning short story author, is joining the writing program faculty at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Since 1964, Eisenberg has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.

Eisenberg is a MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has published four collections of short stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006). All four collections were reprinted in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010).