Lindsay Starck was born in Wisconsin and raised in the Milwaukee Public Library. She is the author of the novels Noah’s Wife (2016) and Monsters We Have Made (2024), a finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards and winner of the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards. Her short prose has appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, and the Southern Review, among other places; her story 鈥淏aikal,鈥� published in the New England Review, won a Pushcart Prize.
Lindsay’s teaching is informed by her graduate work in both fiction writing and comparative literature. As director of the MFA program and a tenured faculty member in the English Department, she teaches courses in creative writing, literature, and composition. With one foot in the School of the Arts and the other in the School of Humanities, Lindsay centers her classes on the interdependence of close reading and thoughtful writing, balancing the production of new work with an investigation of literary and artistic experiments of the recent past.
EDUCATION
- Yale University, B.A.
- University of Notre Dame, M.F.A.
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D
PUBLICATIONS (FICTION AND ESSAYS)
- 鈥淪afekeeping.鈥� Conjunctions. Forthcoming.
- 鈥淭he Sunshine Protection Act.鈥� New England Review 47.1 (Winter/Spring 2026).
- 鈥�8 Books That Will Leave You Questioning if Your Memories are Real.鈥� Electric Literature (August 2024).
- Monsters We Have Made: A Novel. New York: Vintage Books, 2024.
- 鈥淵our Baby is the Size of鈥︹�� Southern Review, forthcoming.
- 鈥淲hen Horror Hits Home: An Appreciation of Domestic Horror.鈥� Crime Reads (March 2024).
- 鈥淗istory of the Handshake.鈥� Fourth Genre 26:1 (Spring 2024).
- 鈥淲hat are the renters doing now?鈥� North American Review (Autumn 2023).
- 鈥溍塵ile Benveniste.鈥� Epiphany Magazine (Summer 2023).
- 鈥淔ata Morgana.鈥� Salamander 56 (Spring/Summer 2023).
- 鈥淧aul Bunyan Goes Wake-Surfing.鈥� The Sierra Club North Star Journal 42.1 (Spring/Summer 2022).
- 鈥淭here Is Nobody Here but Us.鈥� AGNI (Spring 2022).
- 鈥淎t the Mercy Meal.鈥� Bellevue Literary Review (Spring 2022).
- 鈥淏aikal.鈥� The New England Review 41.1 (Spring 2020).
- 鈥淭eaching Mrs. Dalloway.鈥� Southern Review 55:4 (Autumn 2019).
- 鈥淭he Endling.鈥� Ploughshares 44:4 (Winter 2018/2019).
- 鈥淗ibernation.鈥� Cincinnati Review 14.2 (Spring 2018).
- Noah鈥檚 Wife: A Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam鈥檚 Sons, 2016.
PUBLICATIONS (LITERARY CRITICISM)
- 鈥淒juna Barnes鈥檚 Ladies Almanack and the Politicization of Gossip.鈥� Modern Fiction Studies 65.2 (Summer 2019).
- 鈥淛anet Flanner鈥檚 鈥楬igh-Class Gossip鈥� and American Nationalism Between the Wars.鈥� Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 7.1/7.2 (Spring 2017).
- 鈥淭he Matter of Literary Memory: Virginia Woolf鈥檚 Mrs. Dalloway and Ian McEwan鈥檚 Saturday.鈥� Adaptation 9.3 (July 2016): 328-344.
- 鈥淭he (Dis)Possessed: Djuna Barnes鈥檚 Nightwood and the Modern Museum鈥� in The Imagery of Interior Spaces (ed. Eileen Joy). Punctum Books, 2019.