Eden has written books and songs and plays and shopping lists and screenplays and theses and poems. She has a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen. Currently she teaches at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where she lives with her husband, Nate, and their dog, Spinoza. Before Plymouth, they lived in New York City, where Eden was an adjunct professor at Long Island University, Post.

Eden wrote the award-winning young adult trilogy, Young Inventors Guild, while living in Cairo, Egypt with Nate and their three kids — Julius, Lyric, and Cyrus — from 2006 to 2017. During that time, she also earned her MA in English & Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, where she later taught creative writing and literary theory. Additionally, while in Cairo, Eden co-founded the Maadi Community Theatre and was a regular contributor to Oasis Magazine.

Before Cairo, Eden built a home with her family in Baltimore — the inspiration behind her forthcoming novel, as well as three historical non-fiction books she wrote while living there. Eden was also a co-founder and editor of Urbanite magazine; a regularly contributing writer for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, and Baltimore City Paper; and a member of the Board of Directors at Cylburn Arboretum.

Eden earned her BA in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was an avid welder and bassist/vocalist for bands Rude Girl and Legal Reins — before forming alt-rock band enormous with Nate. enormous recorded three full-length albums with A&M Records and toured extensively across North America.