Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking Into the Backcountry, the story of his seven months as caretaker of a remote homestead along the federally designated “Wild and Scenic Rogue River” in Oregon. His essays have most recently appeared in The Yale Review, The Sun, Orion Magazine, Literary Hub, and Longreads. His essay "Yellow Band" was one of the most-read prose works in The Yale Review in 2024. He is the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction/Nonfiction. In 2025, he was the writer-in-residence at the historic Concord Free Public Library. Steve lives in Metrowest Boston with his wife and son.

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Though the number astonishes him, Steve has been teaching college writing for twenty-five years, with stops along the way at Purdue University, Emerson College, Simmons College, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and, for the last decade, he has been a professor of English Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. A highlight of his teaching career has been leading the original course Neurodiversity in Literature and Life at Tufts University's Experimental College. Steve has led workshops with 27 Powers and Larksong Writers Place. Reach out for more information on working with Steve on editorial.