Eileen Riley-Hall

Eileen Riley Hall is a veteran middle and high school English teacher with 25+ years of experience teaching an amazing cast of real-life characters. Her first book, entitled Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts, is based in part on her experience raising two spectacular daughters on the spectrum. Her daughters achieved amazing things through inclusive education, opportunities to participate in life, and lots of unconditional love. The Shape of Secrets is her second book, and her first foray into fiction. She frequently writes Op-Eds about education, autism, and empathy. She has been published in the New York Times, the New York Post, and her hometown newspaper The Times Union, in addition to multiple autism publications. In life and in literature, she loves championing the underdogs and seeing them triumph against the odds. Ms. Hall runs a Facebook page for girls with autism and their parents: Girls and Autism, Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum. Visit to ask questions and offer advice to other families.