Freudenberger graduated from Harvard and has traveled extensively in Asia.Her travel writing has been published in Travel + Leisure, Salon, The New Yorker, and The Telegraph Magazine. She has written book reviews for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue and The Nation.Her work appeared in Granta, and The New Yorker.

She is married and lives in New York City.

• Lucky Girls, Ecco/HarperCollins 2003, ISBN 9780060088798
• The Dissident, Ecco/HarperCollins 2006, ISBN 9780060758714

• Granta 82: Life's Like That, Editor Jack Ian, Granta Books, 2003, ISBN 9781929001125