Steven Rinehart
Part-time Faculty
sjr7@nyu.edu
708 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Wednesday 4:00-6:15
B.A., English, University of Hawaii, 1984
M.F.A., Writing, University of Iowa, 1988
Steven Rinehart is a screenwriter, ghostwriter, speechwriter, carpenter, and fiction writer. He was former President Bill Clinton’s speechwriter for several years, and is the author of the short story collection Kick in the Head and the novel Built in A Day. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, More, GQ, Story, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere, and his work has been anthologized in several books, including The KGB Bar Reader, Sleepaway, Bastard on the Couch, Money Changes Everything, and Over the Hill and Between the Sheets. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and was awarded a 2019-2020 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Awards & Honors
2020
Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Steven Rinehart is a screenwriter, ghostwriter, speechwriter, carpenter, and fiction writer. He was a speechwriter for former president Bill Clinton and is the author of the short story collection Kick in the Head (Doubleday, 2000) and the novel Built in A Day (Anchor, 2004). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, More, GQ, Story, Ploughshares,The Georgia Review, and elsewhere, and his work has been anthologized in several books, including The KGB Bar Reader, Sleepaway, Bastard on the Couch, Money Changes Everything, and Over the Hill and Between the Sheets.
Teaching and Research Interests
fiction nonfiction and memoir writing; Web development
Courses
2023 Spring
Content is Key: Editing Short Fiction
2023 Fall
Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up
2022 Spring
Content is Key: Editing Short Fiction
2022 Fall
Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up
2021 Spring
Content is Key: Editing Short Fiction
2021 Fall
Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up
2020 Spring
