Eleni Stecopoulos is the author of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (2024), a book of linked critical lyric essays; Visceral Poetics (2016), a hybrid of criticism and memoir; and Armies of Compassion (2010), a poetry collection. Her writing has appeared in Pamenar Magazine, Best American Experimental Writing, Somatic Engagement: The Politics and Publics of Embodiment, Kitchen Table Translation, The Encyclopedia Project, Open Space (SFMOMA), NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards, Datableed, ecopoetics, and elsewhere. In recent years she has given talks on poetry and psychotherapy at the University of Plymouth; on poetics and experimental ethnography at the University of Texas, Austin; on “outsider writing” at the University of Chicago; and on translation and healing at the Paros Symposium in Greece. 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.
