Adele Steiner

Adele Steiner is a poet and teacher residing in Bethesda, Md.  She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, College Park and is currently a poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council.  She teaches for The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md., and she is an artist-in-residence at Georgetown University Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.  In these endeavors, as well as through readings, lectures and panel discussions in and around the Washington D.C. area, Ms. Steiner is committed to making poetry accessible to young people.  Her work has been published in M Magazine, The Black Buzzard Review, So To Speak, The Maryland Poetry Review, Wordwrights, The Lucid Stone, Smartish Pace, Promise Magazine, Scribble, a chapbook, Refracted Love (1993) and a full length book of poetry, Freshwater Pearls (1997).