And special thanks to Fiona McCrae, Steve Woodward, Ethan Nosowsky, Katie Dublinski, Erin Kottke, Marisa Atkinson, United States Artists, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, the Wurlitzer Foundation, Yaddo, the Blue Mountain Center, the NYU Faculty Resource Network, and the University of San Francisco.
The story “Signifier” alludes to Lacan’s and Hegel’s thoughts on desire and recognition.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SUSAN STEINBERG is the author of the short story collections Hydroplane and The End of Free Love. She was the 2010 United States Artists Ziporyn Fellow in Literature. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, the Gettysburg Review, American Short Fiction, Boulevard, and the Massachusetts Review, and she is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wurlitzer Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, Yaddo, and NYU. She has a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She teaches at the University of San Francisco.