Darcey Steinke is an American novelist and journalist. The daughter of a Lutheran minister, she was born on April 25, 1962. She is the author of four novels, Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, and Milk, and the memoir Easter Everywhere. She also co-edited the collection of essays Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited with Rick Moody. Steinke has written extensively on art and literature and was a frequent contributor to Spin Magazine, covering the David Koresh Branch Davidian story and contributing a 1997 cover story on Kurt Cobain. In addition, she has a web project called blindspot, [1] which was part of the Whitney Biennial in 2000. Two of her novels have been recognized as New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Steinke's prose has been said to "repeatedly hint at the divine in tangible things"[2]. Her novels often grapple with the difficult conjunctions of "sex and spirit" [3].
She currently teaches at Goddard College in Vermont, New School University and Columbia University in New York City and lives with her daughter in Brooklyn.
She is a graduate of Goucher College and the University of Virginia.