Background
Darcey Steinke was born on April 25, 1962, in Oneida, New York. She is the daughter of a Lutheran minister.
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Darcey at her working place
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Darcey playing in a band in her youth
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Darcey Steinke
3712 Chaparral Dr, Roanoke, VA 24018, United States
Darcey is a graduate of Cave Spring High School.
1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Baltimore, MD 21204, United States
Darcey is a graduate of Goucher College.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Darcey is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
(Sixteen-year-old Eddie, who spends summers on an island w...)
Sixteen-year-old Eddie, who spends summers on an island with his mother, falls in love with a spirited island girl as his mother, forced to choose between two men, takes to the sea for solace.
https://www.amazon.com/Up-Through-Water-Darcey-Steinke/dp/0385246870/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(One brutal man and a night of terror bond two young girls...)
One brutal man and a night of terror bond two young girls - Sandy Patrick, kidnapped from a summer camp, and Ginger, a troubled minister's daughter - as they struggle to survive the harsh world in which they live.
https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Saves-Darcey-Steinke/dp/0871136937/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(A collection of remarkable and wonderfully eclectic origi...)
A collection of remarkable and wonderfully eclectic original essays and meditations offers a fascinating range of probing and very personal interpretations of what Christianity means today.
https://www.amazon.com/Joyful-Noise-New-Testament-Revisited/dp/0316579289/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(From a writer of remarkable depth and courage, a brillian...)
From a writer of remarkable depth and courage, a brilliant and haunting novel that explores the intersection of spirituality and sexuality. Mary is a new mother transformed by the birth of her baby. She is infatuated with the tiny creature, yet feels abandoned by her husband. As her baby sleeps in his crib, she doesn't know whether to kneel in her coat closet and pray or fantasize about sex. She seeks refuge in her old friend Walter, a lonely gay Episcopal priest, who privately struggles with his own contradictory desires.
https://www.amazon.com/Milk-Novel-Darcey-Steinke/dp/1582345295/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(The daughter of a minister and a former beauty queen, Dar...)
The daughter of a minister and a former beauty queen, Darcey Steinke recalls accompanying her father on sick calls, stopping by the scene of accidents, and holding her own pretend wedding and funeral services. Her father's first church was built from a "church kit" and most of the parishioners worked at the local carnival. As a child, religion soaked all her activities. In Easter Everywhere, Steinke tracks her complex and changing ideas about God and how these ideas were impacted by her mother's nervous breakdown and her father's struggle with his parish before Steinke turned her back on religion.
https://www.amazon.com/Easter-Everywhere-Memoir-Darcey-Steinke/dp/1582345309/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(It's the summer of 1972 and girlhood has never been more ...)
It's the summer of 1972 and girlhood has never been more fraught, but Darcy Steinke captures all of it with an intimate, startling grace. When Jesse’s family moves to Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer of 1972, she’s twelve years old and already mindful of the schism between innocence and femininity, the gap between childhood and the world of adults.
https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Golden-Hair-Darcey-Steinke/dp/1935639943/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes...)
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and eradicate. Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the ultimate expression of womanhood. Menopause is seen as a harbinger of death. Some books Steinke found promoted hormone replacement therapy. Others encouraged acceptance. But Steinke longed to understand menopause in a more complex, spiritual, and intellectually engaged way.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HF33R98/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Darcey Steinke was born on April 25, 1962, in Oneida, New York. She is the daughter of a Lutheran minister.
Darcey is a graduate of Cave Spring High School, Goucher College, and the University of Virginia, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.
Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere and five novels: Sister Golden Hair, Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the Water. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared widely. Steinke co-edited the collection of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited with Rick Moody. Her web story “Blindspot” was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Steinke's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. He most recent nonfiction work, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, was published in June 2019.
Steinke has been a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and taught at the New School University, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York University, Princeton, and the American University of Paris. She is currently teaching creative writing at Princeton University.
(One brutal man and a night of terror bond two young girls...)
1997(The daughter of a minister and a former beauty queen, Dar...)
2007(Sixteen-year-old Eddie, who spends summers on an island w...)
1989(A collection of remarkable and wonderfully eclectic origi...)
1997(From a writer of remarkable depth and courage, a brillian...)
2005(It's the summer of 1972 and girlhood has never been more ...)
2014(Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes...)
2019Steinke played guitar in the New York-based rock band Ruffian. She has also written about how her struggles with a stutter contributed to her writing career.
Steinke married journalist Michael Hudson in June 2009. It is her second marriage after writer Michael Hornburg. She has a daughter, Abbie, from her first marriage.