Deborah Eisenberg received a B.A. (1969) from the New School College. Her additional works include Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), and All Around Atlantis (1997), and her short stories have appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, the Yale Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Tin House. She has taught at the University of Virginia since 1994, where she is currently a professor of creative writing.