Love in the Archives: a patchwork of true stories about suicide loss

Gold Royal Palm Award, Florida Writher Association, 2022
Sarton Women's Book Award, Memoir, 2023
Foreword Indies Finalist, Grief/Grieving, 2023
Pencraft Award, Literary Excellence, 2024
A graduate of the University of Maryland School of Nursing and Loyola University, Collin's essays about the grief of losing a child to suicide have recieved the Diana Woods Memorial Award for Creative nonfiction, the Gabriele Rico Challenge Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and was a finalist for the Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Award. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.<br><br>When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again.

Eileen 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 University. Eileen began writing as a way to process her grief after 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.