EILEEN MYLES has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB’s in 1974. . . .  She's read to audiences at colleges, performance spaces, and bookstores across America as well as in Europe, Iceland, and Russia. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States. She's toured with Sister Spit’s Ramblin’ Road Show. Her books include The Importance of Being Iceland (2009), Sorry, Tree (2007),  Skies, (2001), on my way, (2001), Cool for You (a novel, 2000), School of Fish, (1997), Maxfield Parrish, (1995), Not Me, (1991), and Chelsea Girls (stories, 1994). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You / adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e).