14 Facts About Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles was born on December 9,1949 and is an 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.

Eileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 9,1949, to a family with a working-class background.

Eileen Myles moved to New York City in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet.

In 1984 Eileen Myles was hired as the artistic director of St Mark's Poetry Project, and held that position until 1986.

Program Coordinators in this period were Patricia Spears Jones, and Jessica Hagedorn, and Eileen Myles invited Alice Notley and Dennis Cooper to teach.

UCSD funded the research and travel grant that enabled the creation of Inferno, as well as Hell, an opera composed by Michael Webster, for which Eileen Myles wrote the libretto.

Since leaving UCSD in 2007, Eileen Myles has been a Visiting Writer at Bard College, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Washington University in St Louis, University of Montana-Missoula, Columbia University School of the Arts, and New York University.

In 2016, Eileen Myles endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in a BuzzFeed piece entitled Hillary Clinton: The Leader You Want When The World Ends.

In 1977 and 1979, Eileen Myles published issues of dodgems, a literary magazine, a title referring, in the vernacular of Great Britain, to bumper cars, specifically those of Revere Beach, MA.

Later, Eileen Myles would publish essays and other article in the Village Voice, The Nation, Artforum, Parkett, and Art in America.

In 1979 Eileen Myles founded the Lost Texans Collective with Elinor Nauen and Barbara McKay.

Since the early eighties Eileen Myles has toured and read their own work extensively.

Since 1997 Eileen Myles has frequently toured with LGBT performance group Sister Spit.

Eileen Myles appears on three episodes in the second season of the TV series Transparent in 2015 and in 2024 they appeared in Andrea Luka Zimmerman's film Wayfaring Stranger.