Wednesday, February 11, 2009
11 a.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor
South Campus

Deborah Eisenberg is an acclaimed short story writer, whose works include Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), Air: Twenty Four Hours, Jennifer Bartlett (a monograph, 1995), The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1996), All Around Atlantis (1997) and Twilight of the Superheroes (2006).

Ms. Eisenberg, currently a professor at the University of Virginia, has held a number of prestigious teaching positions, including the Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; the Shirley Sutton Thomas Visiting Writer at the University of Utah; at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; as a visiting professor at City College of New York; at the Prague Summer Writers’ Workshop; and as an adjunct professor at New York University.

In 2000 she was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story, which recognizes significant contribution to the short story form. Other distinctions include the PEN Hemingway Citation; the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Award; Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium; Friends of American Writers Award; Ingram Merrill Foundation Award; Award for Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters; and O. Henry Awards in 1986, 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2006.