Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles is the author of numerous books including Chelsea Girls, Maxfield Parrish and her latest, School of Fish, all published by Black Sparrow Press. She has worked as a teacher and editor and even ran for president in the 1992 election. She is also the former director of the world-renowned St. Marks Poetry Project.

With Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You, adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e), 1995), which received a Lambda Book Award and is also a frequent contributor to The Nation, Art in America and Seattle’s Stranger.

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