is a songwriter, poet, and author of three collections of poetry, Shooting Stars, Nightwinds, and Lovesongs, and two upcoming books in progress, True Tales form the Home Front and The Recovering Catholics Collection. She has been the director of the Mad Poets Society and editor of the Mad Poets Review, a nationally known literary magazine, since 1988.

Eileen has been nominated for a Governor's Award in the Arts and a Pushcart Prize and has won Community Service Awards from numerous organizations, including the Philadelphia Writers' Conference, the Delaware County Parks and Recreation Department, and Chester High School. In addition, she has been a finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Awards from Paterson Literary Review and the Eve of St. Agnes Award from Negative Capability Press and has received awards from the annual competitions of the PA Poetry Society and National Federation of State Poetry Societies, among others.

Eileen has performed in numerous locations including Penn's Landing for the Poetry on the Plaza series, the Main Line Arts Festival at the Main Line Arts Center in Haverford, the Main Street Theatre in Quakertown, the South Street Arts Festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Rutgers University, and on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, as part of Welcome America, Philadelphia's Fourth of July Celebration, to name a few.

In 2001, she taught the poetry workshop at the Philadelphia Writers' Conference. In the past, she presented a literary magazine editor's workshop at the Philadelphia Writers' Conference and led a workshop on the topic "Chasing the Muse: Women and the Art of Poetry" at the 19th Annual Delaware County Women's Conference.

She has performed at and coordinated benefits for the Domestic Abuse Project and for Solace, a battered women's shelter, at the Walt Whitman Cultural Center in Camden, NJ, featuring jazz and poetry.