ICA Miami is pleased to announce a presentation by renowned author Eileen Myles, who will present works of poetry, literature and criticism on the final day of Shannon Ebner’s solo exhibition, A Public Character. This program is free with RSVP: http://bit.ly/EileenMyles.

Eileen Myles’ presentation is part of ICA IDEAS, a museum initiative expanding the reach and meaning of exhibitions on view, while providing dynamic modes of creation and interaction outside the exhibition format. For more information, please visit http://icamiami.org/ideas.

Eileen Myles (born 1949; Boston, MA) is the author of nineteen books including I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems, and a reissue of Chelsea Girls, both out in fall 2015, from Ecco/Harper Collins. She has worked in fiction, nonfiction, and theater. After graduating with a BA from the University of Massachusetts Boston, Myles moved to New York and joined the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, where she served as artistic director from 1984 to 1986. Her mentors included Alice Notley, Paul Violi and Ted Berrigan, and in 1979, she worked as an assistant to poet James Schuyler. She contributes to several publications, including Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, The Nation, Parkett, H.O.W Journal and Provincetown Arts.

Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital art writers’ grant, a Lambda Book Award, the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America, was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List, and received a poetry award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She lives in Marfa, TX and New York.

Myles contributed a new work of criticism to Ebner’s forthcoming catalogue, published by ICA Miami.