Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke (born April 25, 1962) is an American author and educator. Her most recent memoir, This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith, released in February 2026. Her other books include the memoirs Flash Count Diary, Easter Everywhere and five novels: Up Through the Water, Suicide Blonde, Jesus Saves, Milk, and Sister Golden Hair. She has been a Henry Hoyns Fellow, a Stegner Fellow, Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and on the long list of the Independent Book Award and the Arles Author Prize. Steinke has also served as a lecturer at Princeton University, the American University of Paris, New School University, Barnard College, the University of Mississippi, and Columbia University. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn.