Eileen Lynch is a writer and educator who grew up in Park Ridge, IL, a twenty-minute train ride from downtown Chicago. A graduate of Maine South High School and Loyola University, she was influenced by her insurance man father who participated in the Hull House Playwright’s Workshop and frequent trips with her mother to the Art Institute of Chicago, the Joffrey Ballet, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Early jobs in retail and advertising gave her a lifelong love of Michigan Avenue and the Loop, where until Covid, 800,000 people commuted to work every day.
Her next stop was the Clothesline School of Writing at the University of Chicago which included weekly public readings at the Woodlawn Tap. Visits to college friends in Albuquerque prompted her to visit and then to live and work in New Mexico. In Albuquerque, she joined the SouthWest Writers Group.
Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines. Splenditude, her debut novel, was published by High Frequency Press in 2025. Make Good Choices, a short story collection, will debut in August 2026.
Chicago holds her heart close. On every visit to the city, she greets the buildings as old friends, imagining her ancestors walking the same sidewalks.