René Steinke is the author of The Fires. She is the editor in chief of The Literary Review and teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
                                Biography
                                René Steinke is the author of 
The Fires and 
Holy Skirts. She is the editor in chief of 
The Literary Review and teaches creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She lives in Brooklyn.
    Author biography courtesy of HarperCollins. 
                               
Good To Know
                               When she's not writing, Steinke plays keyboards in a rock band called Ruffian.
    In December 2004, she gave birth to a baby boy.