Eileen Cunniffe

Eileen Cunniffe writes mostly nonfiction and often explores identity and experience through the lenses of travel, family and work. Occasionally, her stories present themselves as prose poems. Four of Eileen’s essays have been recognized with Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards and another received the Emrys Journal 2013 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award. Her writing has to date been included in four literary anthologies.

Eileen has worked as a medical writer and editor, has managed corporate communications, including executive speechwriting, and worked for more than a decade in the nonprofit arts and culture sector managing volunteer and leadership development programs. Since 2013, she has been a volunteer newswire contributor to The Nonprofit Quarterly. She currently works at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia as an academic writing consultant.

Eileen earned B.A. degrees in Arts and Honors at Villanova University and an M.S. in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been an active participant in Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio and has participated in writing conferences and workshops through a number of institutions, including Brown University, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Creative Nonfiction, Philadelphia Stories, Stanford University, and Hippocampus Magazine‘s Hippocamp.

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