Danny Eisenberg has lived on both coasts and in the mountain west. He is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction writing at the University of Virginia, where in 2024 he received the Henfield Prize for fiction and an honorable mention in the Balch Prize for Best Short Story by a Graduate Student for the title story of his collection-in-progress, Yourself But More So. He is also working on his first novel. His fiction has appeared in Blackbird and his poetry has appeared in Dunes Review and Rattle. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Meridian.

He is a slow reader.