Susan Steinberg (author)
{{short description|American writer}}
{{Other uses|Susan Steinberg (disambiguation)}}
Susan Steinberg is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections The End of Free Love (FC2, 2003), Hydroplane (University of Alabama Press, 2006) and Spectacle (Graywolf Press, 2013). Her first novel Machine: A Novel (Graywolf, 2019), revolving around a group of teenagers during a single summer at the shore, employs experimental language and structure to interrogate gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma.{{cite web |title=Machine : A Novel / Susan Steinberg. |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/11549029 |website=Princeton University Library Catalogue |accessdate= 2020-01-28}}
Life
Steinberg holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.{{Cite web|url=https://english.uiowa.edu/resources/news/susan-steinberg-join-nwp-distinguished-visiting-professor|title=Susan Steinberg to join NWP as Distinguished Visiting Professor|website=Department of English, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, The University of Iowa|access-date=2019-01-04}} She teaches English at the University of San Francisco.{{Cite web|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/about/contributors/susan-steinberg|title=Susan Steinberg|website=Conjunctions — The forum for innovative writing|access-date=2019-01-04}} She was a fiction editor at Pleiades from 2000 until 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thereviewreview.net/interviews/discovering-new-talent-absolutely-one-great-thril|title="Discovering New Talent is Absolutely One of the Great Thrills of Editing." {{!}} The Review Review|website=www.thereviewreview.net|access-date=2020-01-23}}
Awards
Susan Steinberg was the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize for her short story "Cowboys."{{Cite web |url=https://www.usfca.edu/news/usf-english-professor-awarded-pushcart-prize |title=USF English Professor Awarded Pushcart Prize |last=McKeel |first=Jenny |date=2011-07-17 |website=University of San Francisco |language=en |access-date=2020-01-28}} She was a James Merrill House Fellow in 2015.{{cite web |title=About James Merrill |url=https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows |website=James Merrill House |access-date=30 October 2024 |language=en}}
Reviews
Publishers Weekly gave Machine a starred review, praising her "use of meter and line".{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55597-847-1|title=Machine|website=publishers weekly|access-date=2020-01-23}}
About Machine, Ann Hulbert commended in The Atlantic Steinberg's "daring experiments with style and perspective".{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/machine-susan-steinberg/592795/|title=Girl, Haunted|last=Hulbert|first=Ann|date=2019-07-23|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-23}}
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Andrew Schenker lauded the stylistic diversity of the chapters in Machine and the stylistic "tension between motion and stasis" in Spectacle.{{Cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/because-she-meant-god-and-we-meant-something-else-on-susan-steinbergs-machine/|title="Because She Meant God and We Meant Something Else": On Susan Steinberg's "Machine"|last=Andrew Schenker|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=14 September 2019 |access-date=2020-01-23}}
Writing
- Machine: A Novel (Graywolf Press, 2019){{Cite news|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/susan-steinberg-machine-novel-review/|title=Transfixing and Repellent: Susan Steinberg's Fictions of Insidious Masculinity|last=Paoletta|first=Kyle|journal=The Nation|date=2019-09-05|access-date=2020-01-23|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}}
- Spectacle (Graywolf, 2013){{cite web|url=https://littlevillagemag.com/book-review-spectacle-by-susan-steinberg/|title=Book Review: 'Spectacle' by Susan Steinberg|date=2 April 2019|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Spectacle-by-Susan-Steinberg-4206888.php|title='Spectacle,' by Susan Steinberg|first=Carmela|last=Ciuraru|date= 2013-01-19|website=SFGate}}
- "Spectacle," Conjunctions (2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/susan-steinberg-c56|title=Spectacle, by Susan Steinberg {{!}} Conjunctions — The forum for innovative writing|website=www.conjunctions.com|access-date=2020-01-23}}
- Hydroplane (University of Alabama Press, 2006){{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-57366-129-4|title=Fiction Book Review: Hydroplane by Susan Steinberg, Author . Fiction Collective Two $15.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-57366-129-4|website=PublishersWeekly.com}}{{cite web |title=19 Wonderful Short Books and Stories to Read Now |url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/10/wonderful-short-books-stories-to-read-now.html |website=Vulture |accessdate=16 April 2020 |language=en-us |date=18 October 2016}}
- The End of Free Love (FC2, 2003){{Cite web|url=http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2003_12_001167.php|title=Bookslut {{!}} The End of Free Love by Susan Steinberg|website=www.bookslut.com|access-date=2020-01-23}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/susan-steinberg Susan Steinberg] at University of San Francisco
- [https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2013/06/interview-susan-steinberg-author-and-professor/ Interview] in Hippocampus Magazine
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