Eden writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her work has appeared in Community of Writers Poetry Review, Lumina Journal, and Peripheries. Her collection of lyric essays on 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 is currently Senior Editor of Poetry and Prose for Peripheries, a literary and arts journal published annually by Harvard Divinity School and Harvard University Press. Her work has been supported by Sarah Lawrence College, the Community of Writers (in both poetry and nonfiction), and other organizations. 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. Since 2015, she has led Eden Garden Advisory, a boutique impact consulting practice connecting ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, foundations, and mission-driven companies to bold social and environmental strategies—through philanthropy, advocacy, impact investing, c3/c4 fiscal sponsorship, donor partnerships, and strategic communications. She serves as Senior Advisor to a select portfolio of family offices, funds, and B corporations, including Arabella Advisors and NationSwell.

A founding board member and Secretary of Edible Schoolyard NYC, Eden’s interests include climate and conservation; democracy and civic engagement; sustainable food systems; racial and gender equity; mental/spiritual health and wellness; education and youth leadership; public interest tech; and the arts. Eden received her BA in English Literature from Yale University and her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two kids, Virgil the cat, Ernest the dog, three chickens, and a few hundred thousand honeybees.