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Eileen Vorbach Collins, Author
Eileen Vorbach Collins is a Baltimore native. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Loyola University. Eileen's essays about the grief of losing a child to suicide have recieved the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative nonfiction, the Gabriele Rico Challenge Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and was a finalist for the Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Award. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Eileen's essay collection, Love in the Archives, origianlly titled Hold on Till the Sun Goes Down, received a Florida Writers Association Gold Royal Palm Award and was voted first runner up best book 2022.
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After evacuating their home in Florida in the wake of hurricane Ian, Eileen and her husband moved to Garner, North Carolina with Sugar, their geriatric Labrador retriever.
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