# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eileen-myles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:56:15.346Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eileen-myles"
name: "Eileen Myles"
slug: "eileen-myles"
description: "Eileen Myles 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. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as \"one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature.\" The Boston Globe described them as \"that rare creature, a rock star of poetry.\" They won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 2011 for their Inferno  In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow, which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Myles has been called \"a cult figure to a generation of post-punk female writer-performers\" and uses they/them pronouns."
tagline: "American poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eileen_Myles_at_the_2008_Brooklyn_Book_Festival.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3735347"
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    url:       "https://eileenmyles.com/"
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    title: "Eileen Myles"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump