Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet, essayist, and critic. She is the author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (2024), Visceral Poetics (2016), and Armies of Compassion (2010). Her writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, [φρμκ], Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Somatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment, Open Space, ecopoetics, and many other venues. Stecopoulos holds a PhD in literature and an MFA in creative writing. She taught at Bard College and the University of San Francisco and now works with writers as an independent editor and mentor. From New York, she lives in Northern California.