Name Rene Steinke Role Novelist | Books Holy Skirts, The fires | |
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Education University of Virginia, Valparaiso University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Nominations National Book Award for Fiction Similar Dan Beachy Quick, Lee Upton, Juan Rulfo | ||
Author rene steinke at friendswood public library
Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: The Fires (1999), Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, Bookforum, and elsewhere.
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Steinke holds a BA from Valparaiso University, an MFA from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Until 2007, Steinke was Editor in Chief of The Literary Review, where she now holds the position Editor-at-Large. Her cousin Darcey Steinke is also an author. Rene Steinke lives in Brooklyn.