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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
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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
Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; (12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German-born avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical se ...
, 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.
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
Darcey Steinke (born April 25, 1962) is an American author and educator. She has written five novels: ''Up Through the Water,'' ''Suicide Blonde,'' ''Jesus Saves,'' and ''Milk,'' ''Easter Everywhere,'' and ''Sister Golden Hair''. Steinke has als ...
is also an author. Rene Steinke lives in Brooklyn.
Steinke received a fellowship at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...
for ''Friendswood'' in 2016.
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