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Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University.

Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family was Jewish. She grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s.

Eisenberg was an editorial assistant at The New York Review of Books in 1973. She taught at the University of Virginia from 1994 until 2011, when she accepted a teaching position at Columbia University's MFA writing program.

Eisenberg has written five collections of stories: Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), All Around Atlantis (1997), Twilight of the Superheroes (2006), and Your Duck Is My Duck (2018). Ben Marcus, reviewing Twilight of the Superheroes for The New York Times Book Review, called Eisenberg "one of the most important fiction writers now at work. This work is great." Her first two story collections were republished in one volume as The Work (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1997). Her first four collections were subsequently reprinted in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (2010).