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Eileen Myles
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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]
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Born | (1949-12-09) December 9, 1949 (age 74) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Genre | Poetry, non-fiction, fiction, performance |
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