His mother was from Chisinau. His early publications include four col- lections of single-panel cartoons, the last of which was Baddies (Melville House Publishing). He fiction hasappeared in Ambit, Atticus Review, Call Me Brackets, and The Woven Tale Press, and his nonfiction in 'The American Scholar, Entropy, Speculative Nonfiction, and Literary Matters, among others. For seven years he wrote on arts and culture for The Jerusalem Post. Stromberg's scholarly work focuses on the intersec- tions of narrative and aesthetic theory, American and European literature, Yiddish language and culture, and philosophy and psychoanalysis. His first critical study was Narrative Faith: Dostoevsky, Camus, and Singer (U Del Press), which focused on narration and moral vision. His second, IDIOT LOVE and the Elements of Intimacy (Palgrave), deals with literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Stromberg has published translations from the Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. He is editor to the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust, and his translations of Singer's work have appeared in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Review of Books, and conjunc- tions. He is alsoeditor of In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times (Delacorte / Random House), a collection of translated stories for children written in the early 20th century. His edited collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer's essays is forth- coming from Princeton University Press.