Dr. Stephen Coyne earned his B.A. from Catawba College, his M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then continued on to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Denver.

On the Morningside campus, Steve is the faculty advisor to the student literary magazine The Kiosk. He is also the coordinator of the Sioux City Readings Series.

He is a former journalist and an award-winning short story writer and poet. He has also researched and written about John Fenwick, founder of the first English-speaking colony in the Delaware Valley.

Outside of his work, Steve is an enthusiastic boater and sailor, exploring the Missouri River and its tributaries around Siouxland.

SHORT STORY PUBLICATIONS

• “Still Life.”  The South Carolina Review. Volume 40, Number 1, Fall, 2007.
• “Jill’s Story.” The North American Review. Volume 292, Number 2, March-April  2007.

• “The Mercy of the World.”  The New England Review.  Volume 28, Number 2, 2007.
• “Hunting Country,” Best of the South, Volume II.  New York: Recorded Books, 2006.
• “Hunting Country,” Best of the South.  Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2005.

• “Hollowed Be Thy Name.”  The North American Review.  Volume 289, Number 2, March-April, 2004.
• “The Long Room.”  The Greensboro Review.  Number 72, Fall 2002.
• “The Visitation.”  The North American Review.  Volume 286, Numbers 3-4. May-August, 2001.
• “Hunting Country.”  New Stories from the South, The Year’s Best, 2001. Algonquin Books of

  Chapel Hill: Workman, New York, NY, 2001.

• “Hunting Country.”  The Southern Review.  Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2000.
• “Missing in Action.”  The Georgia Review.  Volume L, Number 4, December 1996.
• “Salvage.”  American Short Fiction.  Volume 5, Number 20, December 1995.
• “Leveling.”  The South Carolina Review.   Volume 24, Number 2, Spring, 1992
• “Everything Important Makes No Sense.”  The Robert’s Writing Awards Annual, 1991.
• “M.I.A.”  The Colorado Review.  New Series: Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 1991.
• “The Grease Man.”  Prairie Schooner.  Volume 64, Number 1, Spring 1990.

POETRY PUBLICATIONS

• “Living Down Jersey.” The Potomac Review. Issue 37, summer 2004.
• “Weeding.”  The Southern Review.  Volume 39, Number 3.  Summer 2003.
• “Enlightenment.”  The Briar Cliff Review.  Volume 15, Spring, 2003.
• “Missed.”  The North American Review.  Volume 287, Number 6, November-December, 2002.
•  “That robin making. . .”  The Mid-America Poetry Review.  Volume III, Number 1, Spring 2002.
• “Scrambled Love.”  The Literary Review.  Volume 44, Number 3.  Spring, 2001.
• “Old Jazz.”  The Southern Review.  Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.

• “Steps.”  The Southern Review.  Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.
• “Lost.”  The Southern Review.  Volume 36, Number 3, summer 2000.
• “Dear American Association of Retired Persons.”  The Briar Cliff Review. Volume 10, Spring, 1998.
• “Sioux City.”  The Greensboro Review.  Number 60, Summer, 1996.