Egger is a journalist, critic, poet, and editor based in New Haven, Connecticut. He is a frequent contributor at The Boston Globe, and his work can also be found in The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, The Florida Review, The Hartford Courant, and elsewhere. His reporting for the Globe on the abandonment of thousands of pages of confidential patient records at The Walter E. Fernald State School in Waltham, Massachusetts, led to a civil rights investigation by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a Consulting Editor at Wesleyan University Press and on staff at The Yale Review.