Eileen Vorbach CollinsEileen Vorbach Collins' award-winning essays have been widely published. A Baltimore native, she holds a degree in nursing from the University of Maryland and a masters in pastoral care from Loyola. Eileen began writing as a way to process her grief fter her daughter's suicide. Her essays uniquely fuse pathos with joy and everyday subjects with the big questions, while holding space for humor. Eileen lives in North Carolina with her husband, Hugh, and Sugar, possibly the world's oldest living Labrador. Read More Read Less