Lindsay Starck

Director of MFA Program & Associate Professor

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612-330-1518
starckl@augsburg.edu
A photo of Lindsay Starck: A woman wearing a black dress, smiling at the camera.

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 “Baikal,” 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)

  • “Safekeeping.” Conjunctions. Forthcoming.
  • “The Sunshine Protection Act.” New England Review 47.1 (Winter/Spring 2026).
  • “8 Books That Will Leave You Questioning if Your Memories are Real.” Electric Literature (August 2024).
  • Monsters We Have Made: A Novel. New York: Vintage Books, 2024.
  • “Your Baby is the Size of
” Southern Review, forthcoming.
  • “When Horror Hits Home: An Appreciation of Domestic Horror.” Crime Reads (March 2024).
  • “History of the Handshake.” Fourth Genre 26:1 (Spring 2024).
  • “What are the renters doing now?” North American Review (Autumn 2023).
  • “Émile Benveniste.” Epiphany Magazine (Summer 2023).
  • “Fata Morgana.” Salamander 56 (Spring/Summer 2023).
  • “Paul Bunyan Goes Wake-Surfing.” The Sierra Club North Star Journal 42.1 (Spring/Summer 2022).
  • “There Is Nobody Here but Us.” AGNI (Spring 2022).
  • “At the Mercy Meal.” Bellevue Literary Review (Spring 2022).
  • “Baikal.” The New England Review 41.1 (Spring 2020).
  • “Teaching Mrs. Dalloway.” Southern Review 55:4 (Autumn 2019).
  • “The Endling.” Ploughshares 44:4 (Winter 2018/2019).
  • “Hibernation.” Cincinnati Review 14.2 (Spring 2018).
  • Noah’s Wife: A Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016.

PUBLICATIONS (LITERARY CRITICISM)

  • “Djuna Barnes’s Ladies Almanack and the Politicization of Gossip.” Modern Fiction Studies 65.2 (Summer 2019).
  • “Janet Flanner’s ‘High-Class Gossip’ and American Nationalism Between the Wars.” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 7.1/7.2 (Spring 2017).
  • “The Matter of Literary Memory: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Adaptation 9.3 (July 2016): 328-344.
  • “The (Dis)Possessed: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Modern Museum” in The Imagery of Interior Spaces (ed. Eileen Joy). Punctum Books, 2019.