Maggie Nelson

Artists

Maggie Nelson is a poet, nonfiction writer, critic and scholar. She is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including /Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions/ (University of Iowa Press, 2007), which was awarded a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, as well as the 2008 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship; /The Red Parts: A Memoir /(Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan); /Something Bright, Then Holes /(poetry, Soft Skull Press, 2007); and /Jane: A Murder/ (mixed-genre, Soft Skull, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). Her newest book is a work of creative nonfiction about the color blue titled /Bluets/ (Wave Books, October 2009). A work of cultural and art criticism titled /The Art of Cruelty/ is forthcoming from W. W. Norton. She currently teaches on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, California, and lives in Los Angeles.