Steve Gronert Ellerhoff

Steve Gronert Ellerhoff is a graduate of the University of Iowa (2002) and the Creative Writing MA at Lancaster University in England (2003). He also holds an MPhil in Literatures of the Americas (2011) and a PhD in English (2014) from Trinity College, Dublin. He has held jobs as a popcorn concessionist, a janitor, a projectionist, a file clerk, an assistant manager, a research assistant, a teaching assistant, a legal assistant, an adjunct professor, and once upon a time, for five years and a day, he worked his way up to Director of Wind-Up Toys at Finnegan's Toys & Gifts in downtown Portland, Oregon. Tin robots, flipping kangaroos, and chattering teeth eventually gave way to mythology, and he spent four years studying literary criticism and depth psychology in Ireland, living at the lip of the Irish Sea in Bray.

Routledge is publishing his PhD research for their Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies series, titled Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (2016). Along with Philip Coleman of Trinity College, Dublin, he is also co-editing George Saunders: Critical Essays, the first book-length work of criticism on the author. Another book, Mole, for the Animal Series published by Reaktion Books in the UK, is in the works. Not only a scholar but also a writer of fiction, he often collaborates with English artist Kevin Storrar. Their combined literary and artistic efforts include the novel Time's Laughingstocks (2013) and Tales from the Internet, a story collection (2015). Another novel, The Hedgehog's Dilemma, is forthcoming.

More can be found at http://stevegronertellerhoff.net