Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician based in Chicago, Illinois. Her writing on loss and illness, oceans, and extinction has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera, Literary Hub, Minding Nature, and The Rumpus. She has been the recipient of a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship in environmental journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a Frontline: Environmental Reportage residency at The Banff Centre for the Arts. She is the screenwriter for the short film Becoming Ocean. She lives in the Logan Square neighborhood with her husband and son.