Meredith Steinbach

Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of literary novels and collections of fiction: The Enigma of Rain & Other Stories (2017), Village with Blue Doors (2016), To Be Sung on the Water (2016), The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (Winner of the International General Fiction Category at the 2013 Paris Book Festival), Zara, Here Lies The Water, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Reliable Light, and Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint; one play: In the Realm of Which There is No Sign; and a number of works in progress. Prizes and honors have included 2013, Paris Book Festival, Best of General Fiction Category; New England Book Festival, Honorable Mention, General Fiction Category; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; Bunting Fellowship at Harvard-Radcliffe; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Travel Grant from the Thomas J. Watson Institute for research in France and Greece; Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, among others. Meredith Steinbach lives with her family in a sea captain's cottage on the Rhode Island coast and is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.