Erick Verran is the author of the nonfiction collection Obiter Dicta (Punctum Books, 2021). His writing is forthcoming or appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rain Taxi, the American Poetry Review, the Georgia Review, The Drift, the Harvard Review, the Oxford Review of Books, On the Seawall, the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cortland Review, Annulet, and elsewhere. He is also an independent scholar of aesthetics and digital games. He lives in Salt Lake City.