Meredith Steinbach has published three novels, Zara, Here Lies the Water, and The Birth of the World as We Know It; Or Teiresias, and a collection of stories, Reliable Light. Another novel, To Be Sung on the Water, is forthcoming. She has received an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the NEA and the Bunting and Watson Institutes. She is a professor of English at Brown University.