Meredith Steinbach, Professor of Literary Arts

Office Location: Room 202, 68 1/2 Brown St.

Meredith_Steinbach@Brown.edu

Fall 2008 courses
LITR 1010 S02 Advanced Fiction
LITR 1110J S01 The Short Story

Spring 2009 courses
LITR 1010A S02 Advanced Fiction
LITR 1410A S01 Fiction Honors

Meredith Steinbach is the author of 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).

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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