Education
Reisman received her Master of Fine Arts from the Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers at the and her Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
Reisman received her Master of Fine Arts from the Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers at the and her Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
Her short story collection House Fires won the 1999 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her novel The First Desire won the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction. Reisman has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Reisman won an O. Henry Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. Her book, The First Desire, was also named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.