Eisenberg is a writer of fiction and nonfiction about embodied experience, centering “fat people from many walks of life.” Her work emerges from queer literary traditions, interrogating issues of gender, race, and class and challenging conventional stories told about nonnormative bodies in contemporary fiction. Her novel Housemates (2024, Penguin Random House) was a national indie bestseller and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. She is the author of the nonfiction book The Third Rainbow Girl (2020, Grand Central Publishing), the short story collection Fat Swim (2026, Penguin Random House), as well as fiction, essays, and criticism that have appeared in publications such as The Yale Review, The Paris Review, TIME, The New York Times Review of Books, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Copley Eisenberg is co-founder of Blue Stoop, a community hub for the literary arts in Philadelphia. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and a BA in English literature from Haverford College.
