Faculty Presentation: Eileen Myles and Megan Foster
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
5-7 PM
Stanley Kunitz Common Room
Join us for an reading and artist talk with writer Eileen Myles and artist Megan Foster.
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About Our Speakers
Eileen Myles (they/them, b. 1949) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist whose practice of vernacular first-person writing has made them one of the most recognized writers of their generation. Their newest books are Pathetic Literature and a “Working Life”, poems. Myles’s fiction includes Chelsea Girls (1994) which just won France’s Inrockuptibles Prize for best foreign novel, Cool for You (2000), Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010) and Afterglow (2017). Writing on art was gathered in the volume The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art (2009). They live in New York and in Marfa, TX.
Megan Foster earned her BFA from RISD and MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been shown at venues including Black and White Gallery, Mixed Greens, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), and the San Jose Museum of Art.
Foster’s prints and installations elevate everyday moments into open-ended narratives that examine the expectations of contemporary life and shifting connections to nature and technology. Drawing from imagery in art, architecture, and science, she repositions the ordinary as a site of reflection and spectacle.
She is an associate professor and department head of Printmaking at RISD, past master printer at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, and co-founder of Moonlight Editions.
