The Matriarch

Eileen McNeal wrote her first story for an Archie comic book when she was 12 years old and won a prize. After graduating from High School, she worked as a teacher aide for under privileged children, ages three to four after completing a course in childcare at Kutztown State College. She spent many years working at Hess's Department Store in Allentown where she wrote poems and anecdotes for the store paper. She's had some poems published and several stories. She has three adult children and four grandchildren. At the present time she lives in Allentown with her eldest son.