[2] Although he's been writing since about 1988, Steinmetz's literary career was "rebooted" by attending the 2008 Clarion Workshop,[3] which "transformed [it] into something with intense focus ... and the ability to scale previously impossible publishing walls.
"[4] His work has appeared in various periodicals, webzines, podcasts and anthologies, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Apex Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, The Drabblecast, Dragons, Droids & Dooms: Year One, The Edge of Propinquity, Electric Spec, Escape Pod, Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Giganotosaurus, GUD, Kaleidotrope, Leading Edge, Lullaby Hearse, Nebula Awards Showcase 2013, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, PodCastle, Pseudopod, Redstone Science Fiction, Rocket Dragons Ignite, Shimmer, Soundproff Digest, Space and Time, Three-lobed Burning Eye, Three-lobed Burning Eye Annual, Uncanny Magazine, Unidentified Funny Objects, Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, What Fates Impose, and Whispers From the Abyss Vol.
[1][3] His recent novel Sol Majestic was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal as an example of the sub-genre "hopepunk".
[5] Steinmetz's story “Sauerkraut Station” (Giganotosaurus, Nov. 2011[6]) was nominated for the 2011 Nebula Award for best novelette.
[8] According to Steinmetz, this was not sanctioned by the convention, largely went unnoticed by the majority of attendees, and was a positive experience for those participating.