Eirik Steinhoff lives in Olympia, WA, where he 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 ArcadeChicago Review, Counter-SignalsFloorpostmedieval, and elsewhere. In the late 20th century he was a librarian at the Reuters News Photo archive. In 2009 his translations from Petrarch’s Rime Sparse appeared as Fourteen Sonnets from Albion Books.