Eileen Myles is a poet and writer. They have produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.Myles received their B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and began attending poetry readings and workshops at St. Mark’s Poetry Project. From 1977 to 1979, they published the poetry magazine dodgems. From 1984 to 1986, they were the artistic director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project.Myles has received a Guggenheim, a Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, three Lambda Book Awards and a “Pioneer”lifetime achievement award, the Shelley Prize from the PSA, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing, a poetry award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Publishing Triangle.