Professor Steinbach is a novelist and short story writer with an interest in ancient and modern world literatures and in the non-linear forms of modernist and post-modernist fiction.

Professor Steinbach is currently working on the completion of several novels and one collection of short fiction.

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"Truck," an excerpt from To Be Sung on the Water, a novel,  in The Long Meanwhile, an anthology, Molly McQuade, ed., Hourglass Books, 2006

"Statuesque," an excerpt from To Be Sung on the Water, a novel, inTriQuarterly Magazine, #117, Fall, 2003

"Tripped Oasis," an excerpt from To Be Sung on the Water, a novel, in Ploughshares, Volume: 28 Number: 4, 2002

"The Third Visitor," an excerpt from To Be Sung on the Water, a novel, in Southwest Review, vol. 85, number 2, 2000

The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, a novel (Northwestern University Press, November 11, 1996)

In the Realm of Which There Is No Sign, a play; staged reading, Brown University, 1994

She, a one-act play; On Site Production, CSPS, Inc., World Premier Plays, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Fall, 1992

Reliable Light, a collection of stories and novellas (Rutgers University Press, 1990)

Here Lies the Water, an experimental novel, (Another Chicago Press, May 1990)

"In Recent History," a story, in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards, Doubleday, Fall, 1989

"A Preponderance of the Small," a novella, Tyuonyi, Institute of Native American Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Winter, 1989

"On Star Street," in Five Fingers Review #5, San Francisco, California, Winter, 1988

"In Recent History," in Southwest Review, Southern Methodist University, Summer, 1988

"Two Chapters," in TriQuarterly 71, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, featuring "The Death of Narkissos" and "The Birth of the World As We Know It," 1988

"Bluebeard's Children," in Black Warrior Review, University of Arkansas, Spring, 1987

"Sparking," in Antioch Review, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Fall, 1985

"Soundings in Feet and Fathoms," in The Massachusetts Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Spring, 1985

"Hippopotamos," in TriQuarterly 61, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Fall, 1984

Zara, a novel (Ecco Press, 1982, 1984; reissued, Northwestern University Press, October 1996 )

"The Very Dead," in TriQuarterly 51, Spring, 1981

"In Vivo," in Antaeus 39, New York, N.Y., Fall, 1980

"Zara Montgomery," in TriQuarterly 46, Fall, 1979

"Vestiges," The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, New York, N.Y. 1977-78 ed

"The Foxglove is a Delicate Flower," in Cutbank, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, Fall/Winter, 1977

"Vestiges," in Ploughshares, Special Fiction Issue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Spring, 1976

Professor Steinbach's prizes and honors have included Winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival, international general fiction category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Honorable Mention/ 2012 New England Book Festival/ general fiction category for The Charmed Life of Flowers; Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Exchange Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; Rhode Island State Artist's Grant (In The Realm of Which There Is No Sign, a play); O. Henry Award for the Short Story; Rhode Island State Literary Award for Excellence; Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship at Harvard-Radcliffe; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Shorts Stories; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; Pushcart Prize for the Short Story, among others.

Associated Writing Programs, member
Amnesty International, member
PEN, member

Professor Steinbach teaches the writing of novels and short stories to graduate and undergraduate students, directs the Honors/Capstone Seminar for Literary Arts, supervises Graduate Theses and Senior Honors Theses in Fiction and Screen Writing. She also teaches the seminar Fiction into Film most fall semesters. She has taught numerous literature courses while at Brown University, including What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them?, courses in Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, British and American Literature Since World War II, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction Between the World Wars, Studies in the Short Story.