Literary
Eileen Myles
- 6:30PM
Moderated by Alexander Chee
Celebrated poet and essayist Eileen Myles has written 19 books, including the recent collection I Must Be Living Twice and the 1994 autobiographical novel Chelsea Girls, which was reissued this year. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers' Grant, a Lambda Literary Award, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing 2015, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Believer, The Nation, and The Paris Review. Myles divides her time between Marfa, Texas, and New York.
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh and The Queen of the Night. He is a recipient of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA fellowship, and a 2010 MCCA fellowship. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, The New Republic, NPR, and Out. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic and an editor at large for The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in New York.
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