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.
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Sally TimmsAlso in William S. Burroughs Birthday Bash (2014)
Jacqueline WoodsonAlso won Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
Lucille CliftonAlso won Shelley Memorial Award
Rose TrocheAlso won Lambda Literary Award
Benjamin Alire SáenzAlso won Lambda Literary Award
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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.
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