Plug In ICA is pleased to join forces with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg for a reading and the launch of Eileen Myles’ new book: Inferno on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Plug In ICA.

Eileen Myles’s was born in Boston and moved to New York in 1974. HerInferno (a poet’s novel) is just out from OR books. For her collection of essays,The Importance of Being Iceland, she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant. Sorry Tree is her most recent book of poems. In 2010 the Poetry Society of America awarded Eileen the Shelley Prize. She is a Professor Emeritus of Writing at UC San Diego. She lives in New York.