DARCEY STEINKE is the author of the memoir This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith (HarperOne). Her other books include the memoirs Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life and Easter Everywhere: A Memoir, along with five novels – Sister Golden Hair: A Novel, Milk: A Novel, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the Water. Her books have been translated into 10 languages, and many have been named a New York Times notable book. Her nonfiction has appeared widely and she often writes about art. Her web story “Blindspot” was part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Steinke has been a Henry Hoyns fellow, a Stegner fellow, writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi, and named to the longlist of the Independent Book Award and French Arles Author Prize. She has taught at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York University, Princeton University, and American University of Paris. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York.
