about.
Eleanor Vincent has been writing professionally since the age of 23. She began her career as a journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and branched out into writing personal essays, fiction, and poetry after moving to California in 1978.
Her début memoir, Swimming with Maya: A Mother's Story (Capital Books, 2004) chronicles the life and death of her nineteen-year-old daughter, Maya, who was thrown from a horse and pronounced brain-dead at the hospital. Eleanor donated her daughter's organs to critically ill patients and poignantly describes her friendship with a middle-aged man who was the recipient of Maya's heart.
The Sacramento Bee calls Swimming with Maya, "frank and moving…a journey from denial to acceptance to redemption."
Eleanor has appeared on CNN and Evening Magazine, been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, and been interviewed on radio and television programs around the country. She is a national spokesperson on grief recovery and organ donation.
She received a Woman of Promise Award from the Feminist Writers' Guild. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in 1995 where she teaches writing workshops in creative nonfiction as a visiting writer.
She is currently writing a book about her adventures living in an urban cohousing community from 2005 to 2007. As a midlife refugee from the suburbs, she tried out this new lifestyle with poignant and hilarious results.
She lives in Oakland, California.
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