Meredith Steinbach is the award-winning author of Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint, The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (2013 Paris Book Festival, 1st place winner), The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias, Zara, Here Lies The Water, one play and numerous short stories including the collection Reliable Light. Prizes and honors for Meredith Steinbach's fiction have included Winner of the 2013 Paris Book Festival, international general fiction category, Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; Mary Ingraham Bunting Fel...