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Binnie Kirshenbaum is an American novelist and short story writer. She is professor and chair of the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Born in 1964, Kirshenbaum received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She has been a professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia University School of the Arts since 2003.

Kirshenbaum published her first book of ten short stories, Married Life and Other True Adventures, in 1990. According to Publishers Weekly, "Things to Do" is about a wife who discovers she married not for love, "but for a good health plan;" "Wheels" shows "true love is a sleek, cobalt-blue Alfa Romeo on the open road;" "Pravda" describes "two women, friends of many years, who spend a fall afternoon outdoors on a bench discussing Marxism, men and amorality;" in "Travail," an American couple who travel to Romania in search of romance to save their marriage find the highlight of their vacation is the sight of three stuffed goats in pink tutus; "Red Fever" has a heroine who claims that love is like another troublesome substance: "You scrape and scrape at the bottom of your shoe but you never quite get it off. "