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Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of stories, brought together in 2010 for the first time in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.
She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rea Award, a Lannan Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She has taught at the University of Virginia from 1994 until 2011, when she accepted a teaching position at Columbia University’s MFA writing program.
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