Education
He graduated from Minnesota State University, and University of Texas-Austin, with an Master of Fine Arts. He graduated from the University of Missouri with a Doctor of Philosophy, where he studied with Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos.
He graduated from Minnesota State University, and University of Texas-Austin, with an Master of Fine Arts. He graduated from the University of Missouri with a Doctor of Philosophy, where he studied with Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos.
He was raised in Mankato, Minnesota. He was poetry editor of the Missouri Review. He taught at the University of Missouri, and Seton Hall University.
He teaches at The University of Nevada-Reno.
His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, and Mississippi Review, The Yale Review, Slate, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review. He is the nephew of Tom Montag.
Steve Gehrke also seeks to comprehend beauty in the mystery of the human body, yet Gehrke"s search for comfort and understanding leads in rather a different direction than Stevens" abstractions, taking us through an unvarnished look at the body"s flaws and failings that is another aspect of its power to inspire awe. Through the eyes of both patients and artists, Steve Gehrke examines "the world in repair." The savage and strange exploration of fragility embodied in this collection of poems nevertheless has the capacity to lend unexpected comforts to a reader faced with an inescapable mortality.
