Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, performance artist, and librettist, described by Holland Cotter in The New York Times as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.” Myles is the author of twenty-one books, including, most recently, evolution , a collection of poems, and Afterglow / a dog memoir , which was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction in 2018. Myles was the artistic director of St. Mark's Poetry Project in the 80s, conducted an openly female write in campaign for President of the United States in 1992, and has read and performed her work all over the US and Europe. Myles is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, and more recently was Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at New York University. Myles has received a Guggenheim Fellow, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, grants from the Warhol/Creative Capital Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art and in 2016 the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing.