Arleen Eagling grew up in Palo Alto, California, and earned her BA degree in Humanities from UC Berkeley. She began to write fiction after early retirement from a technical career. She has long been intrigued by the insights into human nature we can discover in literature, through writing as well as reading. Her primary goal is to create stories which are, in some way, useful for navigating our complicated world.
Several short stories by Arleen have been published:
Her recent story titled “In Progress” was accepted for the 2022 statewide issue of The California Writers Club Literary Review, released in November 2022.
The story “When Trouble Happened” appeared in Voices of the Valley – Through the Window, the 2020 issue of the CWC Tri-Valley Branch anthology.
Arleen’s unconventional story “Next Best Friend” was selected for the Tri-Valley Branch anthology Voices of the Valley – Journeys (2018).
In 2015, the Tri-Valley Branch anthology Voices of the Valley – Word for Word included her story “Out There.” It was inspired by a photograph contributed to the Tri-Valley Branch’s Winterfest celebration.
Two of her stories, “Valuable” and “Duration Matters,” were chosen for the anthology Written Across the Genres (2014), edited by Julaina Kleist-Corwin.
The literary journal THEMA printed Arleen’s submission “Half a Good Chance” in the June 2013 issue, a collection on the theme of A Week and a Day.
Her story titled “Unfinished Project” appeared in the Tri-Valley Branch anthology Voices of the Valley – First Press(2011).