The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Meredith Steinbach

Professor Steinbach is a novelist and short story writer with an interest in ancient and modern world literatures and in the non-linear forms of modernist and post-modernist fiction.

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Meredith Steinbach is the author of four books of fiction, including three novels: Zara (Ecco Press, 1982, 1984; TriQuarterly/Northwestern University Press, 1996), Here Lies The Water (Another Chicago, 1990), The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias (TriQuarterly/ Northwestern University Press, 1996) and a collection of stories, Reliable Light (Rutgers University Press, 1990). She is also the author of one play, In The Realm of Which There Is No Sign; a screenplay, Diving for Peru; three novels and one collection of novellas in production.

Prizes and honors have included, among others, a travel grant from the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Exchange for research in France and Greece; Rhode Island State Artist's Grant (In The Realm of Which There Is No Sign, a play); O. Henry Award for the Short Story; Rhode Island State Literary Award for Excellence; Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship at Harvard-Radcliffe; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Shorts Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story.

Her teaching career began while a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, followed by faculty positions at Antioch College, Northwestern University, the University of Washington. She has been a member of the Faculty of Brown University since 1983 and continues as Professor of English in the English Department and the Creative Writing Program.

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MEREDITH STEINBACH, B.G.S. English/Journalism/Fiction, University of Iowa, 1973; M.F.A., University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, 1976
Professor of English
Literary Arts Program
Phone: +1 401 863 3526
E-mail: Meredith_Steinbach@Brown.EDU

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