Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson is an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of books such as Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Something Bright, Then Holes, Jane: A Murder, The Latest Winter, Shiner, and Bluets.

Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program.

In 2007, she received an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

In 2011, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Bibliography

• Shiner (Hanging Loose Press, 2001)
• The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003)
• Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005)
• Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2007)
• Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
• Bluets (Wave Books, 2009)
• The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)

External links

• Audio: Maggie Nelson at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008: reading from "Something Bright, Then Holes"
• Audio: Maggie Nelson at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008: reading from "Jane: A Murder" and "The Red Parts: A Memoir"
• An interview with Maggie Nelson about creativity
• Maggie Nelson's Author Page at Wave Books
• A review of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
• Maggie Nelson on PennSound