Life
Garrison was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father, Joel Gotlieb, died when she was fourteen, and she and her two sisters were raised by their mother Naomi Weisberg Harrison, an accountant. Garrison earned her bachelor's degree in creative writing from Brown University in 1986. She subsequently earned her master's degree in Literature from New York University. On August 10, 1986 she married attorney Mathew C. Garrison. Also in 1986, Garrison joined the staff of The New Yorker where she worked for the next fifteen years, starting on the editorial staff and ultimately becoming the senior non-fiction editor. She is now the poetry editor at Alfred A. Knopf and a senior editor at Pantheon Books. She was hired for Knopf by Sonny Mehta, president of the Knopf group, to replace publishing industry icon Harry Ford. Under Ford's direction, Knopf had become a prominent publisher of poetry. Mehta chose Garrison to fill Ford's shoes because "there was something so fresh about Deborah, and I admired her poetry." Garrison also edits fiction and nonfiction for Pantheon Press. Novelist Julia Glass, winner of the 2002 National Book Award calls Garrison an "incredible editor."
Garrison resides in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and three children.
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