{{Short description|American writer and teacher}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}} '''Eileen Favorite''' (born September 10, 1964, in Chicago) is an American writer and teacher living in Chicago, Illinois. She received a B.A. in English with a French concentration from the University of Illinois, Urbana.<ref name=UniversityIllinois> {{cite web |url= http://www.las.illinois.edu/alumni/magazine/classnotes/2009/ |title= University of Illinois }}</ref> In 1999, she received an MFA in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<ref name=FavoriteSite> {{cite web |url=http://www.eileenfavorite.com/author.html |title=Official Site of Eileen Favorite |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710173342/http://www.eileenfavorite.com/author.html |archivedate=July 10, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref>
==Novel== Favorite's first novel, ''The Heroines'', was published in 2007 by Scribner.<ref name=isbnlib> {{cite web |url=http://www.isbnlib.com/pub/Distribution_by_Scribner?page=21 |title=ISBN Library |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713062050/http://www.isbnlib.com/pub/Distribution_by_Scribner?page=21 |archivedate=July 13, 2011 |df=mdy }}</ref> It has been translated into Italian, Korean, 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 ''Booklist''.<ref name=UofICreativeWriting>{{cite web |url= http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/carr/ |title= University of Illinois Creative Writing |access-date= December 15, 2010 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091001182817/http://creativewriting.english.illinois.edu/carr/ |archive-date= October 1, 2009 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
==Other works== Her poems and essays have also appeared in ''Poetry East, The Chicago Reader, Rhino, Midnight Mind'' and have aired on Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ).<ref>{{cite web |title=Midnight Mind Magazine |url=https://midnightmind.com/authors/eileen-favorite/}}</ref> She also has participated in guest interviews directly on WBEZ as well.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ruiz |first1=Brenda |title=Cancel culture: Is there a better way to address misbehavior? |url=https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2021/11/12/is-there-a-better-way-to-address-misbehavior |website=WBEZ Chicago |publisher=WBEZ}}</ref> She's received Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in both poetry and prose.<ref name="FavoriteSite"/>
== Awards == Favorite won Illinois Arts Council Fellowships in 2001 (for prose) and 2005 (for poetry).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Favorite, Eileen 1964- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/favorite-eileen-1964 |access-date=2026-03-25 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref>
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