Deborah Eisenberg to read for The Writing Program Reading Series Feb. 8

Jan. 31, 2007 -- Fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg, the visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature in Washington University's Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, for The Writing Program Reading Series.

Diana Michener

Deborah Eisenberg

In addition, The Writing Program will host a Q&A with Eisenberg at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15.

Both events are free and open to the public and take place in Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall, on the university's Danforth Campus. Duncker Hall is located at the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Eisenberg is the author of five short story collections: All Around Atlantis (1997), The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg (1996), Under the 82nd Airborne (1992), Transactions in a Foreign Currency (1986) and, most recently, Twilight of the Super Heroes: Stories (2006).

She is also the author of a play, Pastorale, which was produced by Second Stage in New York in 1982; and a monograph, Air: Twenty Four Hours, Jennifer Bartlett (1995). A contributing editor for Bomb, she has written for The New Yorker and The Yale Review, among others. Her work appeared in Best American Short Stories in 1992 and 2004.

Eisenberg's numerous honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1993), a Whiting Writer's Award (1987-88), a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1987-88) and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship (2003).

She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.