 In 2004 Eiríkur was a founder member of the Icelandic avant-garde poetry collective Nýhil, which organised poetry events and publishing; the co-operative continued until around 2010.He was a prominent contributor to "The Reykjavík Grapevine" in 2009-11.Eiríkur Örn has married; his first child was born in 2009.