Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Eileen Myles moved to New York City from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets, a double volume (of poems) came out in 2012 from Wave Books. Eileen's Inferno: a poet's novel (2010) won the Lambda Book Award in 2011 for lesbian fiction. Her more than twenty publications include Sorry Tree (2007), Cool for You (2000), Skies (2001) Not Me (1991), and Chelsea Girls (1994). The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009) received a Warhol/Creative Capital art writing grant in 2007. In 2010 she received the Shelley Prize for her poetry. Eileen writes about books, art and culture for Art Forum, Parkett and Vice and many other publications and she has written catalogue essays on Cathy Opie, Emily Roydson, K8 Hardy, Oscar Tuazon. She’s teaching NYU's graduate program this spring. In 2012 Eileen Myles got a Guggenheim for nonfiction to write “Afterglow” a fantastic dog memoir. [photo by David Shankbone]