Eileen Albrizio is an American writer of poetry and prose and freelances as a writing coach. A former NPR and ABC journalist and news host, her creative writing and journalism have been honored numerous times by the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, Writer's Digest, among others. She is a two-time winner of the GHAC Individual Artist Fellowship for creative writing. Perennials: New & Selected Poems was nominated for the 2008 CT Book Award and The Box Under the Bed won the Paranormal Prose award in 2015. Her novel The Windsome Tree: A Ghost Story (formerly titled Without Mercy) is now available in paperback and as an ebook on Amazon. Albrizio has taught creative writing in several colleges and cultural institutions as well as the York Correctional Institute, Connecticut's maximum-security prison for women, under the creative writing program made famous by best-selling author Wally Lamb. She holds a BFA in Theatre and an MA in English. She lavishes in the pop culture worlds of comic books and genre fiction. She and her husband own and operate Heroes & Hitters, a comic book store in Rocky Hill, CT, established in 1989.