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Eileen Myles | |
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 Myles at the 2008 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | December 9, 1949 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Genre | Poetry, non-fiction, fiction, performance |
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Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning[1] American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.[2] Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature."[3] The Boston Globe described them as "that rare creature, a rock star of poetry."[4] In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life.[5] Myles uses they/them pronouns.[6]
- ^ Inferno (a poet's novel). Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Art into Life: "Transparent" Creator Jill Soloway's New Love Sprang From a Storyline" (Women in the World venture). The New York Times (December 10). 2015. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
Myles is the recipient of the 2015 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. She has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.
- ^ Blake, Sharon (2013). "Pitt Hosts Renowned Author and Poet Eileen Myles for Literary Reading March 21". University of Pittsburgh News Service. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
Myles has been described by novelist Dennis Cooper as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature." They is the author of 19 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry ...
- ^ Sullivan, James (September 29, 2015). "The Inside-Outsider". Boston Globe. pp. G1, G7. Retrieved August 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation – Current". gf.org. n.d. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
- ^ Meinen, Abigail (June 22, 2018). "I am Legion: An Interview with Eileen Myles". Sampsonia Way Magazine. Archived from the original on July 23, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2020.