Rene Steinke
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Rene Steinke is a novelist and a poet. She is the author of The Fires: A Novel which was inspired by her research and experience while attending Valparaiso University
http://www.pifmagazine.com/2001/05/interview-with-rene-steinke and most recently Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
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Holy Skirts was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award
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Steinke holds a BA from Valparaiso University
where she was nominated to become one of Valparaiso University's 150 Most Influential Persons in the University's history , an MFA from the University of Virginia
, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. An early draft of The Fires served as her doctoral dissertation. She holds an associate professorship at Fairleigh Dickinson University
, in whose MFA program she currently teaches. She also teaches at Columbia University
. Until 2007, Steinke was Editor in Chief of The Literary Review
, where she now holds the position Editor-at-Large.
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited private university located in the city of Valparaiso in the U.S. state of Indiana. Founded in 1859, it consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, a nursing school and a law school...
http://www.pifmagazine.com/2001/05/interview-with-rene-steinke and most recently Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.-Early life:Freytag-Loringhoven was born Elsa Hildegard Plötz in Swinemünde , German Empire,...
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Holy Skirts was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award
National Book Award
The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...
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Steinke holds a BA from Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited private university located in the city of Valparaiso in the U.S. state of Indiana. Founded in 1859, it consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, a nursing school and a law school...
where she was nominated to become one of Valparaiso University's 150 Most Influential Persons in the University's history , an MFA from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, and a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. An early draft of The Fires served as her doctoral dissertation. She holds an associate professorship at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...
, in whose MFA program she currently teaches. She also teaches at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. Until 2007, Steinke was Editor in Chief of The Literary Review
The Literary Review
The Literary Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1957. The quarterly magazine is published internationally by Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey...
, where she now holds the position Editor-at-Large.