Eirik Steinhoff lives in Olympia, WA, where he co-teaches interdisciplinary classes like “Words/Woods” and “Gateways for Incarcerated Youth” at The Evergreen State College. He co-edits Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, and his essays have appeared in Arcade, Counter-Signals, Floor, and postmedieval. In 2009 his translations from Petrarch’s Rime Sparse appeared as Fourteen Sonnets (Albion Books). In 2018 a collection of pamphlets he circulated in the vicinity of the Oakland Commune (a.k.a. Occupy Oakland) was published as A Fiery Flying Roule (Station Hill/Publication Studio). He edited Chicago Review from 2000 to 2005.