Eileen Cronin

Eileen Cronin is a Truthdig contributor, creative writing instructor at UCLA Extension and author of “Mermaid,” (WW Norton), translated into three foreign languages and one of O Magazine’s Best Memoirs of the Year.

Her first published work was a cover story for The Washington Post’s Outlook section. She has been awarded the Washington Writing Prize in fiction, and her essays and stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Hill and various literary magazines. She has been awarded fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, and as an American Psychological Association Health Policy Fellow to the US Department of Health and Human Services. She lives in Los Angeles and sometimes performs with "The Moth."