Eileen Myles has been played on NTS in shows including James Massiah, featured first on 23 November 2019. Songs played include Onwards, Upwards & Always, Greek and Basic August.

Eileen Myles is sometimes claimed to be America's best-known unofficial poet. Her latest book is a poet's novel titled "Inferno." It is a poignant memoir that recounts her experiences as a lesbian female poet living in New York.

In her book, "Sorry Tree" she describes “some nature” as well as the transmigration of souls from the east coast to the west. Bust Magazine calls Myles "the rock star of modern poetry" and Holland Cotter in The New York Times describes her as "a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde."[1]

Early life: Eileen arrived in New York after college at UMass, Boston, gaining the friendship of Allen Ginsberg, working for poet James Schuyler[2], becoming a habitue of the household of Ted Berrigan[3] and Alice Notley[4] and generally being a notable part of the turbulent punk and art scene that animated Manhattan's East Village, giving her first reading at CBGB's in 1974[5]. A virtuoso performer of her work - she's read and performed at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across North America as well as in Europe, Iceland, Ireland and Russia.

Professional life: In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for the President of the United States. In the 1980s she was Artistic Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project[6]. In 1997 and again in 2007 Eileen toured with Sister Spit, a post-punk female performance troupe. She has been a professor of writing at UCSD since 2002[7]. In 2007 she received the Andy Warhol Creative Capital art writing fellowship[8]. She contributes to a wide number of publication including Bookforum, the Believer, and lately Cabinet. She has written catalogue essays about Sadie Benning, Peggy Awesh and Nicole Eisenman. She blogs weekly on art at openfordesign.msn.com

Bibliography: She's published more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti including: Hell (an opera with composer Michael Webster). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading. Additional works include: The Irony of the Leash, 1978, Jim Brodey Books. Fresh Young Voice from the Plains, New York:Power Mad Press, 1981. Sappho's Boat, 1982, Little Caeser. Bread and Water: Stories, 1986, Hanuman Books #3. 1969, 1989, Hanuman Books #29. Chelsea Girls, 1994, Black Sparrow Press, stories. Maxfield Parrish: Early and New Poems, 1995, Black Sparrow Press. School of Fish, 1997, Black Sparrow Press. Not Me, 1992, Semiotext(e). Cool for You, 2000, Soft Skull Press, novel. Skies: New Poems, 2001, Black Sparrow Press. On My Way, 2002, Faux Press. American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century. 4 Walls Eight Windows, Codrescu & Rosenthal, eds. Sorry, Tree, 2007, Wave Books.

http://www.eileenmyles.com