Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet, essayist, and critic. She is the author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (2024). Her other books include Visceral Poetics (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir that Petra Kuppers called “a thick rich book of Artaudian trickster moves”; and Armies of Compassion (2010), a collection of poems that Anne Waldman called “riveting . . . rare beauties.” Stecopoulos’s writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, [φρμκ], Best American Experimental Writing, Open Space (SFMOMA), In Insomnia: An Anthology, Somatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment, ecopoetics, Viz. Inter-Arts, Second Stutter, The Capilano Review, Harvard Review, and many other venues. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with writers as an independent editor, manuscript consultant, and mentor. From New York, she lives in Northern California.