Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988283619)

Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (2013 Paris Book Festival, 1st place winner), The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play and numerous short stories including the collection Reliable Light. Prizes and honors for Meredith Steinbach's fiction have included Winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival, international general fiction category, Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Rhode Island State Artists' Grants, University of Iowa Fairall Scholarship for Fiction Writing, and others. Professor Steinbach lives in a sea captain's cottage on the Rhode Island coast with her family, along with a spin-dancing corgi and a Great Pyrenees mountain dog. She taught at Antioch College, Northwestern University, and the University of Washington before coming to Brown University where she is Professor of Literary Arts.