Description Celebrated poet and essayist Eileen Myles has written 19 books, including the recent collection
I Must Be Living Twice and the 1994 autobiographical novel
Chelsea Girls, which was reissued this year. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers' Grant, a Lambda Literary Award, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing 2015, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her writing has appeared in
Artforum,
The New Yorker,
Harper’s,
The Believer,
The Nation, and
The Paris Review. Myles divides her time between Marfa, Texas, and New York.
Part of
Eat, Drink & Be Literary 2016
Moderated by Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee is the author of the novels
Edinburgh and
The Queen of the Night. He is a recipient of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA fellowship, and a 2010 MCCA fellowship. His essays and stories have appeared in
The New York Times Book Review,
Tin House,
Slate,
The New Republic,
NPR, and
Out. He is a contributing editor at
The New Republic and an editor at large for
The Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in New York.
Tsering Nyima: Executive Chef
Tsering Nyima joined Great Performances as BAMcafé’s executive chef in 2010. His culinary experience is grounded in French, Indian, New American, German, Austrian, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines. Nyima was born in eastern Tibet and left at age 14 for a life of exile in India, where, at a Buddhist monastery, he learned how to cook. Nearly a decade later, he came to New York and mastered his cooking skills and knowledge under the guidance of Laurent Tourondel (BLT Steak, BLT Burger, Brasserie Ruhlmann), Gary Robins (Moko), Kurt Gutenbrunner (Wallse, Blaue Gans), and Tadeo Mikami (Hatsuhana).
