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Steven Church
Steven Church
Born	December 12, 1971 (age 52); Lawrence, KS, United States
Occupation	non-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist
Nationality	American
Genre	literary nonfiction

Steven Church (born 1971) is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. Nominated nine times for the Pushcart Prize, Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize from Prairie Schooner, Recipient of Colorado Book Award in Creative Nonfiction for The Guiness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record, "Auscultation" chosen by Edwin Danticat for inclusion in the 2011 Best American Essays.^[1] Church is the author of The Guiness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record (2005), Theoretical Killings: Essays & Accidents (2009), The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst (2010)^[2],Ultrasonic: Essays (Expected Winter 2014 by Lavender Ink)^[3]

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Life and work[edit]

Steven Church was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1971. He earned an M.F.A. in Fiction at Colorado State University in 2002^[4]. Church's essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Passages North, DIAGRAM, Brevity, River Teeth, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Terrain.org, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, and Salon.com. He is the Founding Editor and Nonfiction Editor of The Normal School^[5], a contributing editor to The Colorado Review, Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing at Fresno State^[6], and a contributor to Longreads.com.

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Works[edit]

Non-fiction Books[edit]

The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record. Simon & Schuster. 2005
Theoretical Killings: Essays & Accidents. University of New Orleans Press. 2009
The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst. Soft Skull Press. 2010
Ultrasonic. Lavender Ink. Expected Winter of 2014

Essays[edit]

“Field Trip to the Earthquake Lab”. The Rumpus. 2013
“Tracking Quakes”. The Rumpus. 2012
“On Loitering”. The Rumpus. 2013
“Crown and Shoulder”. Passages North. 2014
“Seven Fathoms Down”. DIAGRAM
“Overpass Into Fog”. Brevity. 2014
“Lagtime”. Brevity. 2010
“Danger Boys”. River Teeth. 2001
“On Kids and Bombs (Or How to be a Hummingbird)”. River Teeth. 2014

“All of Dither”. AGNI. 2010
“Speaking of Ears and Savagery”. Creative Nonfiction. 2012
“Living through the Tremors”. Terrain.org. 2014
“Thoughts on the Apocalypse: Chasing Disaster”. Terrain.org. 2014
"Ultrasonic”. Fourth Genre. 2010
“Testing Ground: Notes on Writing Ultrasonic”. Fourth Genre. 2010
“On Lyric Essays and Dancing in Sequined Pants”. Fourth Genre. 2012
“Next Stop, Meteor Crater”. Fourth Genre. 2003
“I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part”. Fourth Genre. 2007
“Fight, Bull”. Prairie Schooner. 2012
“Mike Tyson’s Ear Fixation, and Mine”. Salon.com. 2013

Anthologized Works[edit]

Blurring the Boundaries: Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction. Ed. By B.J. Hollars. University of Nebraska Press. 2013
True Crime. Ed. By Lee Gutkind. InFact Books.
After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover The Essays. Ed. By Patrick Madden and David Lazar. University of Georgia Press. 2015
Making Essays. Ed. By Jen Hirt and Erin Murphy. SUNY Press. 2015
Oh, Baby!. Ed. By Lee Gutkind. InFact Books. 2015
You. An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person. Ed. By Kim Dana Upperman, Heather G. Simons, and James M. Chesbro. Welcome Table Press. 2013

Other Publications[edit]

The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. Longman. 2011

Additional Information[edit]

BA in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. 1995^[7]
Currently resides in Fresno, California with his family

References[edit]

^ Proctor, John (7 July 2011). "The Day After the Memoir: An Interview with Steven Church". Numéro Cinq. Numéro Cinq. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ Garnett, Nicholas (25 March 2013). "Ground Zero: An Interview with Steven Church". Sliver of Stone Magazine. Sliver of Stone Magazine. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ "Steven Church". River Teeth a Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. River Teeth. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ "Steven Church". Department of English College of Arts & Humanities. Fresno State University. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ Harlan-Orsi, Claire (13 August 2012). "Nonfiction is the new philosphy". Prairie Schooner. Prairie Schooner. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ Schock, Kathleen (10 October 2014). "Steven Church named Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing". Fresno State News. Fresno State News. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
^ "Visiting Writers and Speakers, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013". Department of English. Kansas State University. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2014.