Village with Blue Doors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780988283626)

Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of literary novels Village with Blue Doors, Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence, The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play, a screenplay, and numerous short stories including her collection Reliable Light. Several novels and another short fiction collection are forthcoming. Prizes and honors have included Winner, 2013 Paris Book Festival / International General Fiction Category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Honorable Mention, 2012 New England Book Festival/ General Fiction Category also for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; the 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 Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, Rhode Island State Artist's Grants, the University of Iowa Fairall Prize for Fiction Writers, among others. Meredith Steinbach lives on the Rhode Island coast with her family, and an immense Great Pyrenees mountain dog and a spin-dancing corgi. She is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.