Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke
Steinke at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1962-04-25) April 25, 1962 (age 62)
Oneida, New York, U.S.
EducationGoucher College (BA)
University of Virginia (MFA)
OccupationAuthor
SpouseMichael Hornburg
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(m. 2009)​
Websitewww.darcey-steinke.com

Darcey Steinke (born April 25, 1962)[1] is an American author and educator. She has written five novels: Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, Milk,[2] and Sister Golden Hair.[3][4] Steinke has also served as a lecturer at Princeton University,[5] the American University of Paris,[6] New School University,[7] Barnard College, the University of Mississippi,[8] and Columbia University.

Early life

Steinke, born in Oneida, New York, on April 25, 1962,[1] is the daughter of a Lutheran minister.[9] Steinke grew up in upstate New York; Connecticut; Philadelphia; and Roanoke, Virginia.[10]

She is a graduate of Cave Spring High School, Goucher College, and the University of Virginia, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.[9] Steinke completed a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.[9]

Career

Writing

She is the author of four novels, Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, and Milk,[2] and the spiritual memoir Easter Everywhere.[11] Her fifth novel, Sister Golden Hair, was published by Tin House Books in October 2014.[3] Steinke co-edited the collection of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited with Rick Moody.[9] Steinke has written extensively on art and literature and has contributed to Spin Magazine, covering the David Koresh Branch Davidian story and contributing a 1993 cover story on Kurt Cobain.[1][12] In addition, she has a web project called blindspot which was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2000. Her novels Up Through the Water and Jesus Saves were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.[13]

Steinke's prose has been said to "repeatedly hint at the divine in tangible things."[2] According to a Washington Post book review of Steinke's novel Milk, "Steinke writes some beautifully mystical descriptions of sexual encounters, and the conjunction of sex and the spirit, bodies and souls, is fascinating."[14]

Steinke's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian.[15]

Teaching

Steinke teaches creative writing at Princeton University and the American University of Paris and in the graduate programs at New School University and Columbia University.[9] She previously taught at the University of Mississippi,[13] where she was a writer-in-residence, and at Barnard College.[15]

Personal life

Steinke married journalist Michael Hudson in June 2009. It is her second marriage after writer Michael Hornburg.[9] Steinke lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter, Abbie. Steinke played guitar in the New York-based rock band Ruffian.[16] Her cousin Rene Steinke is also an author.[17] She has written about how her struggles with a stutter contributed to her writing career.[18]

Bibliography

Fiction

Nonfiction

  • Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (co-editor, with Rick Moody, and contributor) (1997)
  • Easter Everywhere (2007) (memoir)
  • Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (2019)

• "God Is In The House" (2020), an essay about the musician & songwriter Nick Cave, contained in his book "Stranger Than Kindness" (Canongate), published in association with Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen, March 23 – October 3, 2020

References

  1. ^ a b c "Darcey Steinke". The Media Briefing. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Books Briefly Noted: Milk". The New Yorker. April 22, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Sister Golden Hair – Fiction / Poetry – Books – Tin House". Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  4. ^ "A Wished-For House With a Hideaway Nook". The New York Times. May 13, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  5. ^ "Darcey Steinke". Lewis Center for the Arts. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  6. ^ "Summer Creative Writing Institute". www.aup.edu. January 3, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  7. ^ "Darcey Steinke – Public Engagement". www.newschool.edu. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  8. ^ "Darcey Steinke, Writer living in Oxford, Mississippi and professor at the University of Mississippi". www.mswritersandmusicians.com. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Darcey Steinke, Michael Hudson". The New York Times. June 21, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  10. ^ Hand, Elizabeth (April 17, 2007). "Raw God, Tiny Nun". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on June 18, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  11. ^ Metcalf, Stephen (February 8, 2005). "The God Disillusion". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  12. ^ Steinke, Darcey (June 3, 2014). "Meeting Kurt Cobain: One Writer's Story, 20 Years Later". Vogue. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Darcey Steinke". Mississippi Writers and Musicians. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  14. ^ Bergland, Renee (March 27, 2005). "Short Novels". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  15. ^ a b "Steinke, Darcey". The New School. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  16. ^ "2003 Pop Conference Bios/Abstracts". EMP Museum. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
  17. ^ "UNCG Hosts Steinke Reading Oct. 26". October 12, 2005. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  18. ^ Steinke, Darcey (June 9, 2019). "Opinion | My Stutter Made Me a Better Writer". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 9, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020.