The biographies that accompany Eileen Bennetto's works in A Ream of Writers and The Lennie Lower Stop Me If You've Heard It Anthology of Humorous Short Stories indicates that she was born in Wangaratta, trained as a librarian, and worked for many years in CAE and high-school librarians (Ream of Writers), and that she 'has had feature articles and short stories published in various newspapers and magazines' (Lennie Lower~).