Binnie Kirshenbaum (born Yonkers, New York, 1964) is an American writer of both novels an short stories. Her work is most noted for its humorous and ribald prose which disguises the themes of human loneliness and sadness. Kirshenbaum attended Columbia University and Brooklyn College. She is the head of the fiction department at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. She has won the Critic's Choice Award twice and was selected as one of the Best Young American Novelists by Granta Magazine. Kirshenbaum was also a nominee for The National Jewish Book Award. Her newest novel, Greater than Love, will be published in 2009. Kirshenbaum resides in New York City and is married to the scientist Anthony Gidari.