In New York they participated in writing workshops held at St. Myles moved to New York City in 1974 with the intention of becoming a poet. They attended Catholic schools in Arlington, Massachusetts, and graduated from UMass Boston in 1971. Life and career Early life and education Įileen Myles was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1949, to a family with a working-class background. 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." In 2012, Myles received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow (a memoir), which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog's life. Poetry, non-fiction, fiction, performanceĮileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning 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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