is the author of ten novels: Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Tours of the Black Clock, Arc d'X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Shadowbahn. He also has written three books about politics and popular culture: Leap Year, American Nomad and American Stutter. Numerous editions have been published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Over the years he has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Conjunctions, the New York Times Magazine and other publications and journals, and his work has been widely anthologized. For twelve years he was editor and co-founder of the national literary journal Black Clock. Currently he is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. He has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and twice has been nominated for the National Magazine Award for criticism and commentary. In July 2021 the University Press of Mississippi published Conversations With Steve Erickson as part of a series that has included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, William S. Burroughs, Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez.