Eileen Finan

Experience

Eileen Finan has been with PEOPLE for more than two decades as a writer and editor across several sections. She's covered breaking news, features stories, entertainment and the royals as part of the magazine's London bureau, and traveled to Russia, Pakistan, Kuwait and throughout Europe to cover stories. While working as a correspondent in Nashville, she covered human interest, country music and crime. She helped launch the magazine's PEOPLE Country brand and helped to edit a series of PEOPLE Country special issues. She's also contributed as a writer to several PEOPLE bookazines, including as the lead writer for a special issue on Queen Elizabeth.

She's currently the magazine's senior health reporter, covering health-related news and feature stories for the magazine and contributing to PEOPLE.com. She is based in Nashville.

Before working with PEOPLE, she wrote for Time, Newsweek and the Chicago Tribune, and spent two years in Russia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She's also taught journalism and writing at Northwestern University, Middle Tennessee State University and Chicago's Columbia College. She's a South Side Chicago native.