Professor, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing
English, College of Arts and Sciences
Harvey Hall 213
516.877.4027
rsteinke@adelphi.edu
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1993)
MFA, University of Virginia (1988)
Advanced Creative Nonfiction
Fiction Workshop
Manhattan Week
Writing Poetry
Creative Writing
Fiction Writing
Poetry Writing
Writing Creative Nonfiction
The Contemporary Novel
Modern Literature
Creative Writing
Contemporary Novels
The Novel
Modernism
The Novel
Visual Artists (especially Hilma af Klint and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven)
From 2013-2023 (except for 2021-22), I directed a writer's residency for MFA students at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Wroxton College (in Oxfordshire, England). As part of the curriculum, we hosted many UK authors and publishing professionals, including Jeanette Winterson, Bernadine Evaristo, Samantha Harvey, and others.
Friendswood (a novel), Riverhead Books
Holy Skirts (a novel), William Morrow/Harper Collins
The Fires (a novel), William Morrow
Book Reviews
“Emma Donoghue, The Wonder,” 4Columns, September 23, 2016 ().
"The Invaders, by Karolina Waclawiak," O: The Oprah Magazine, August 2015.
“Mermaids in Paradise, by Lydia Millet,” review in The New York Times Book Review, January 2, 2015.
“Texas Ex: A review of It Starts with Trouble: William Goyen and the Life of Writing, by Clark Davis,” Bookforum, April/May 2015 (in print and online, .
“The Field,” The Arkansas International, Fall, 2018, No. 5 (print and online).
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“Walser on Fire,” The Literary Review, Summer 2015, p. 43-48.
Bhisé Faculty Research Grant (2024-2025)
University Grant-in-Aid Award (2016, Fairleigh Dickinson University)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016)
National Book Award Finalist
Virginia Book Award Finalist
University of Arkansas 2022-23 Walton Visitng Writer
Distinguished Visiting Writer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2019)
Judge, Rona Jaffe Prize, 2019
Judge, St. Francis College Prize for Mid-career Writers, 2017
Fiction Judge, National Book Awards, 2013
Judge, PEN Biography Award, 2009
Director, Low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing
Advisory Committee, Writers and Readers Festival at Â鶹ֱ²¥
Scholarship and Creative Works Committee