Eileen Myles is probably the best-known indie poet in America. She has read and performed her work locally (NYC and Provincetown, MA) nationally and in Europe, Iceland and Russia. She published her first collection of stories Chelsea Girls in 1994. Her books of poems include School of Fish (1997) Maxfield Parrish (1995) and Not Me (1991). In 1995, with Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You/adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e), 1995). From 1984-86 she was the Artistic Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project. She conducts public workshops in NYC, and at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In 1992 she conducted an openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States.