Bio

Eileen Myles's collection of essays The Importance of Being Iceland, for which she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant is just out from Semiotext(e)/MIT.  Eileen also writes novels (Chelsea Girls, Cool for You) and libretti (“Hell”) and many many poems (Sorry, Tree, Not Me). She ran St. Mark’s Poetry Project in the 80s. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President. She’s a Professor Emeritus of Writing & Literature at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.