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For other uses, see Steve (disambiguation).

Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen.

Notable people

A–D

• Steve Abbott (disambiguation), several people
• Steve Abel (born 1970), New Zealand politician
• Steve Adams (disambiguation), several people
• Steve Addabbo, American record producer, songwriter and audio engineer
• Steve Alaimo (born 1939), American singer, record & TV producer, label owner
• Steve Albini (1961–2024), American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist
• Steve Allen (1921–2000), American television personality, musician, composer, comedian and writer
• Steve Allrich, American screenwriter and painter
• Steve Alten (born 1959), American science-fiction author
• Steve Antin (born 1958), American actor
• Steve Aoki (born 1977), American DJ and music producer
• Steve Armitage (born 1944), British-born Canadian sports reporter
• Steve Armstrong (born 1965), American professional wrestler
• Steve Arrington (born 1956), American singer, songwriter, drummer, record producer, e
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  This I Believed

  I believed, in the beginning, that I was not of this world. That is, I believed I should not love the things of this world, because this planet was not my home, and my actual residence was a faraway paradise that existed beyond what we humans could see or know. And so I grew up understanding that the place where I lived in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina would not be the place where I’d end up, and that this land — with its waterfalls churning silver wakes inside spectral pools and its lookout rocks where one could view blue ridges like frozen waves retreating into infinity — offered merely a foretaste of future glory.

  My first problem was that I loved my home. The house that my parents had built, and where I lived with them and my sister, sat in a shadowy cove, on a hill of grass and moss, below which two creeks converged in a rhododendron thicket to form a single stream. Our water came from a springhouse squatting on the side of a mountain, where you could unlatch the screen door and, unhooking a metal dipper from a nail, scoop

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  Erika Meitner attended Dartmouth College, Hebrew University on a Reynolds Fellowship, and the University of Virginia, where she received her M.F.A. in 2001 as a Henry Hoyns Fellow.

  She’s received additional fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (2002, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009), the Blue Mountain Center (2006), and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (John N. Wall Fellowship, 2003).

  1. You’re a contributor to 32 Poems, a professor at Virginia Tech and you’re completing a doctorate in Religious Studies. What “hat” do you find most difficult to wear and why?

  Right now the hardest of these–between teaching in a relatively new job, trying to write poems during the semester, reading all the applications to our MFA program, advising students, and mothering a toddler–is finding the time in the day to work on my doctoral research. Happily, that’s what they made summers. It’s also hard to peel off my professor-identity, in the sense that when I meet with my religion professors, I have to inhabit my role as a stude