Eileen Favorite (born September 10, 1964, in

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) is an American writer and teacher and living in Chicago, Illinois. She received a B.A. in English with a French concentration from the

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, Urbana. In 1999, she received an MFA in writing from the School of the

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Novel

Favorite's first novel, ''The Heroines'', was published in 2007 by Scribner. It has been translated into Italian,

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, Russian (in press), and Finnish. ''The Rocky Mountain News'' called ''The Heroines'' one of the best debut novels of 2008, and the audio version was nominated for best audio recording of 2008 by ''

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''.

Other works

Her poems and essays have also appeared in ''Poetry East, The Chicago Reader, Rhino, Midnight Mind'' and have aired on

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). She's received Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in both poetry and

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References

Living people 1964 births 21st-century American women writers Writers from Chicago American women novelists University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni {{US-novelist-1960s-stub