Deborah Treisman has been Fiction Editor at The New Yorker since 2003. She joined the magazine as Deputy Fiction Editor in 1997. Previously, she was the managing editor of Grand Street, and she has served on the editorial staffs of The New York Review of BooksHarper's, and The Threepenny Review. Her translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper's, and Grand Street. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2010), and a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, she received the Center for Fiction's Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Contribution to Fiction. 

Ms. Treisman was born in Oxford, England, and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New York City.