‘People go on these pilgrimages to become ‘other’ in order to become artists. I began other.’
Eileen Myles came to New York from Boston in 1974 to be a poet. Their books include For Now, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems, and Chelsea Girls. Pathetic Literature which they edited, will be out for Grove Press in November 2022. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2021 was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. They live in New York and Marfa, TX.
I first met Eileen at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2017. I was working on a queer writing project at the time and a few months after our meeting, Eileen agreed to do a short interview about their then new book Afterglow: A Dog Memoir.
Five years after our initial meeting, it was an absolute pleasure to sit down and chat with Eileen about life, writing and their new work.
Read the interview here- http://mironline.org/intervieweileenmyles
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