Eiren Caffall is a musician and freelance writer living and working in Chicago. The great-granddaughter of an Episcopal Bishop, she is the daughter of a geophysicist and a Beatnik Shaker Acolyte. She has always dwelled in the places where art, spirit, aesthetics and science meet. She writes songs, personal essays and meditations on spiritual life during global climate change. She writes about heartbreak and grace - the tricks of memory that help us survive and the wisdom that comes whether we like it or not.

She is currently at work on her fourth album and first book. She lives with her son Dexter in Chicago, where they spend most of their time articulating skeletons and beach combing.

Read Eiren’s blog on environmental and spiritual issues for Tikkun Daily.


For The Civil Twilight Project, Eiren has written essays based on each song.  Here’s the blog for Civil Twilight, Song Studies.  Read and listen.


Eiren’s essay And Now Witness the Ending, Beautiful and Terrible appears in the book The Time After.