About Me

I began writing poetry in high school under the expert guidance of my freshman English teacher. I continued writing poetry while earning a music literature degree at Southwestern University and a law degree at SMU. After finishing law school, I devoted my writing time to legal writing—as an associate attorney for a couple of law firms, as an assistant professor, and then as an Assistant City Attorney. After the birth of my second kiddo, I left my legal career to stay home with my kids and turned back to poetry as a therapeutic creative outlet and survival mechanism.  

My poetry has been published by Dos Gatos Press, Mutabilis Press, the Fargo Public Library, Visions International, Equinox Journal, and Kindred Characters, and online in The Ekphrastic Review and formidable woman sanctuary. My first poetry collection, How to Escape a Burning House, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in the Fall of 2025.

Although I now run my own law firm, I haven’t stopped writing poetry. In my free time, I also write about mental health and being human in my Substack newsletter, Notes From the Mindfield. I live in central Texas with my husband, my two kids, and our three cats, and can be found on Bluesky as @eileenwritesit.