Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Jeffrey Seitzer received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. He teaches at Roosevelt University, where he won an award for adjunct teaching in the humanities in 2018. Author, editor, and translator of several books and many essays on law and philosophy, his creative nonfiction has appeared in Brevity Nonfiction Blog, Hippocampus, The Good Men Project, the Write Launch, Pulse Magazine, and elsewhere. Jeff still lives with his wife and daughter Penelope in Chicago, because of, not despite, the weather.

Chicago Wildlife, or My Namesake Upgrade

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     My Namesake Upgrade  Our dearly departed cat Snuggles, known as The Dark Lord to her intimates, got an unexpected shoutout in the Hood Avenue group chat recently . “We need Snuggles back,” a neighbor said, to keep the expanding bunny population under control, or something to that effect. Snuggles, all five pounds of…

Pregunta, Pregunta*

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  Pregunta, Pregunta* February 3, 2022   Everyone is on edge these days. Apparently, suffering through a pandemic while the planet is dying is just a little too much for some people. You never know when someone is going to lose it. An old lady ambling down the sidewalk toward you. Brace yourself. She could…