EVE MILLS ALLEN

Eve Mills Allen (who has also published under Eve Mills Nash and Eva Mills) currently works as a mental health therapist in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. She worked in the field of journalism for more than 30 years, including 13 years as a newspaper reporter. She also supplied contract writing services for businesses and magazines and wrote the treatments for a season of television shows on APTN in Canada.

Eve has a MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick as well as a MEd in Counselling Psychology. She won several short story contests in Atlantic Canada during the 1990s and early 2000s and had a short story published in an American anthology Dare to Repair. Personal writing projects were ignored for several years while she changed careers and facilitated therapeutic writing workshops and worked in the mental health field (most often in First Nations communities) throughout Atlantic Canada. She also taught a Life Writing class at the University of New Brunswick for 10 years and offered sessions at the Maritime Writers Workshops there two summers. Today, she continues to offer therapeutic writing workshops but returned to her personal writing last year. She is a member of the Moncton Writer’s group and the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick.

In 2002, her memoir, Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction and Reconciliation, coauthored by Kenneth J Harvey, was published by Beech Holme Publishing in Vancouver. It is now with Dundurn Press in Toronto.

In 2003, she self-published a children’s story, Moli Musquash and the Seven Deadlies, and the Friendly Feelings Kit which was used in Fredericton area elementary schools. Her work has also appeared in The Nashwaak Review and the Amethyst Review.