Eileen Garvin

Eileen Garvin writes fiction and memoir rooted in Oregon’s natural landscape. Her debut novel, The Music of Bees, was published by Dutton and follows three people brought together through beekeeping: orchard keeper Alice Holtzman, former student Jake Stevenson, and musician Harry Stokes. Their work with honeybee colonies becomes a framework for friendship, recovery, and renewed purpose, while a local pesticide dispute gives the story an environmental dimension. Garvin’s official biography describes her as a beekeeper as well as a writer, grounding the novel’s apiary setting in lived practice. Before fiction, she published the travel memoir How to Be a Sister.