Eileen’s debut poetry collection, How to Escape a Burning House, is available for preorder from Finishing Line Press through July 15, 2025, with publication expected on September 15, 2025.

How to Escape a Burning House is a guidebook for mothers who have sacrificed themselves to their children and their partners. Some poems explore the loneliness and despair motherhood can bring, revealing the traps set by societal and family expectations. The book as a whole, however, invites the reader to redefine motherhood, love, and self, and to forge their own path to joy.

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