Eric Barnhart currently spends most of his time planting gardens in old books or testing the weight-bearing load of the laminate plywood that composes an IKEA bookshelf with a new stack of books. As of recently it began to sag noticeably under the added weight of Epstein, Skoog, Murakami, Flynn, Calvino, and Hicok. He is currently working towards his MA in Creative Writing at California State University, Northridge.