Eileen Moeller grew up in Paterson, New Jersey, and has lived in many places with her husband Charles, a psychologist, most recently in Medford, New Jersey. She earned an M.A. in Creative Writing, from Syracuse University in 1991, and taught writing there for fifteen years. She was also a teaching artist for Central New York Community Arts Council, and taught creative writing at local art centers, libraries, at Pratt at MWPI, and at Hamilton College. Her first book, titled Firefly, Brightly Burning, was published by Grayson Books in 2015. Her poems have also appeared in anthologies and literary journals, in the United States and in England, most recently in: Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spiritualty, ed. Marilyn Swell, Beacon Press 1987; Claiming The Spirit Within: A Sourcebook Of Women's Poetry, ed. Marilyn Sewell, Beacon Press 1994; Caprice 1996; Writing Women (England)1997; Poetry London Newsletter 1997; The Nerve: A Writing Women Anthology, Virago Press, 1997; Feminist Studies, Summer 2002 and Spring 2003; The Paterson Literary Review 2005; Paterson: A Poet's City Anthology 2005; Blue Fifth Review (online) 2007; Comstock Review 2007; Philadelphia Stories 2007; Women.Period: an anthology 2008; Kritya (online) 2008; Philadelphia Stories 2008; Melusine (online) 2009; Fox Chase Review 2009; Umbrella (online) 2009; The Wild 2009; Paterson Literary Review 2010; Ars Medica Spring 2010; Poems of Awakening, ed. Betsy Small 2010; A CD, Snow White Turns Sixty, by contemporary composer Dale Trumbore 2011; Ars Medica Fall 2012; Sugar Mule (online) Special Walt Whitman Issue 2012; Philadelphia Stories (online); Philadelphia Stories (online) Summer 2013; Schuylkill Valley Journal Spring 2013; Grit, Gravity & Grace: New Poems about Medicine and Healthcare ed. Rhonda L. Soricelli M.D. and Jack Coulehan, M.D., M.P.H., Mutter Museum of Medical Oddities, 2015; 50 Over Fifty: A Celebration of Established and Emerging Women Writers ed. Carla Spataro, PS Books, 2016. Her blog, And So I Sing: Poems And Iconography can be accessed at http://eileenmoeller.blogspot.com
