Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor.

She co-edited the anthologies Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) with John Poch and Bill Beverly and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with M. E. Silverman.

Her manuscript Midnight Voices was a semifinalist for the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize in 2007 before being accepted for publication by Cherry Grove Collections.

Ager is also an essayist, with nonfiction writing published in Narratively, The Week, and Modern Loss.

Ager is married to the writer Bill Beverly.