Eden is a writer, connector, and social impact advisor.

Eden writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in Community of Writers Poetry Review, Lumina Journal, Peripheries, and Mistake Machine. Her collection of lyric essays about guilt, WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILED, was shortlisted for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Eden served as Nonfiction Contest Editor for Lumina Journal, judged by Leslie Jamison, and as Senior Editor of Poetry and Prose for Peripheries, a literary journal published by Harvard Divinity School and Harvard University Press. Eden’s work has been supported by Sarah Lawrence College, the Community of Writers, and a private writing workshop with Nick Flynn. She is currently at work on her first book, FORM AND VOID: MEMOIR OF A MISSING CHILD.

Eden has worked for three decades at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and systems change. She was the founding Executive Director of Summer Search NYC, Steamboat Foundation, and the Tauck Family Foundation. She founded and led Eden Garden Advisory, a boutique impact consulting practice connecting individuals, family offices, foundations, funder collaboratives, and mission-driven companies to bold social and environmental strategies. She served for eleven years as a founding board member of Edible Schoolyard NYC. In late 2025, Eden joined Grounded Capital as Managing Director, helping to scale the transition to a more regenerative food system from soil to the consumer.

Eden received her BA in English Literature from Yale University and her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives with her family and writes in Redding, Connecticut.

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