His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Kalliope, A journal of women's art and literature and other magazines.
[3] Meinke and his wife, the artist Jeanne Clark, have lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, since 1966.
For 27 years, Meinke was a professor at Eckerd College, where he was a director of the EC Writing Workshop.
In February 2004, he was inducted as a foundation member into the Eckerd College Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Zeta of Florida.
He also served on the faculty of the Eckerd College's Third Annual Writers in Paradise Conference in January 2007.