Deborah Treisman is a British Fiction Editor for the New Yorker.

Deborah was born and raised in the city of Oxford until she was about 8 years old. She later moved to Vancouver, Canada where she decided to suppress her English accent in order to avoid being bullied.

She grew up in a family of academics and scientists.

At the age of 16 years old, she attended the UC Berkeley and studied liberal arts for about a year. She graduated with a degree in Comparative literature.

During and after her college, she had worked as a writer.

She began her post-college career as an editor at The Threepenny Review, then earned an internship at Harper's Bazaar. At 23, Treisman became the editor of Grand Street, a now-defunct quarterly literary magazine.

In 2002, after an introduction to Bill Buford, she joined The New Yorker as a deputy fiction editor. When Buford left to pursue his writing career, Treisman took his place.