Darcey Steinke is the acclaimed author of the New York Times "Notable Memoir" Easter Everywhere (2007) as well as five novels. In 2017 Maggie Nelson wrote a foreword for a new edition of Steinke's 1992 novel Suicide Blonde. With Rick Moody, Steinke edited Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (Little, Brown & Co., 1997). Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared widely. Her web-story Blindspot was a part of the 2000 Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner Fellow; Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi; and has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Barnard, The American University of Paris, and Princeton. Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life is her most recent book.