Eileen Myles (1949) is a poet, writer, and art journalist who has produced numerous books of poetry, novels, plays, along with other written works and performance pieces. Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, they graduated from UMass Boston in 1971 before moving to New York City. Myles has held various positions over the course of their career, serving as the artistic director of St. Mark's Poetry Project in the 1980s, a professor the University of California, San Diego in the early 2000s, and as a visiting writer at multiple universities across the country. Myles also ran for president in 1992 in an act of protest against remarks made by George H. W. Bush that disparaged minority groups.

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