Thom Eichelberger-Young is an artist, theorist, publisher, and former mental health caregiver living in Buffalo, New York, where they somehow manage to survive as a research fellow and student in the PhD Program in Poetics at SUNY Buffalo. They are the author of the long poems BESPOKE (St. Andrews University, 2019) and ANTIKYTHERA (Antiphony, 2024), and the essay collection OINTMENT WEATHER: Insurgent Poietics for Desperate Times (CLOAK, 2025). They operate Blue Bag Press.