birth_place birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
cambridge , massachusetts , united states 1949 poetry non-fiction fiction performance eileen myles at the 2008 brooklyn book festival.jpg eileen myles
 eileen myles writer , poet , performer
eileen myles

eileen myles -lrb- born 1949 -rrb- is an american poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry , fiction , nonfiction , libretti , plays , and performance pieces over the last three decades .
myles is described as `` one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature . ''
in 2012 she received a guggenheim fellowship to complete `` afterglow '' -lrb- a memoir -rrb- , which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog 's life .
