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  <name><![CDATA[Rene Steinke]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Rene Steinke is a novelist and a poet. She is the author of The Fires: A Novel and most recently Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. Holy Skirts was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award.

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. 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.

Steinke, a novelist and poet with editorial experience on other literary magazines, is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize and three PSC-CUNY Research Foundation awards for creative writing. Her book reviews have appeared in Newsday and The Cresset, and she has been a poetry editor for The Cresset and for Cream City Review. Her poems and stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, Sundog and Carolina Quarterly. 

Steinke’s first novel, The Fires, came out in 1999 and has since been published in paperback and featured on National Public Radio’s “Weekend All Things Considered.” The Fires was selected by The Austin Chronicle as one of the best books of 1999, and the film rights have since been optioned by Madonna’s production company, in partnership with Handprint Entertainment. 

Rene's work has also been publishedin such places as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsday, and TriQuarterly. Her essay &quot;The Peppy Girls of Friendswood, Texas&quot; was published in With Love and Squalor: Writers on the Work of J.D. Salinger, and her essay &quot;What Coco Ate&quot; appears in the book Dog Culture.

Rene Steinke currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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