Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson
Born 1973
Nationality American
Genres non-fiction, poetry, memoir
Notable awards MacArthur Fellow

Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer. She is the author of five books of nonfiction, including The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), Bluets (2009), The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, (first published in 2007, reprinted in 2016), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007, winner of the Susanne M. Glassock Award in Interdisciplinary Scholarship).

Her books of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), Jane: A Murder (2005, finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001). The Argonauts won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and was a New York Times best-seller. The Art of Cruelty, a work of cultural, art, and literary criticism, was featured on the front cover of the Sunday Book Review of the New York Times and named a NY Times Notable Book of the Year. Her 2009 book Bluets, about pain, pleasure, and the color blue, became a cult classic, and was named by Bookforum as one of the 10 best books of the past 20 years.

Her memoir about her family, media spectacle, and sexual violence, titled The Red Parts, is the second of two books she wrote about the 1969 murder of her aunt, Jane Mixer. She has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship,[1] a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. She is generally described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry.

Career

Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute; she currently directs the CalArts MFA writing program and lives in Los Angeles.[2][3]

Themes

Nelson's work has included writing on art, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory and philosophy.[4]

Personal life

Nelson is married to the artist Harry Dodge. The couple have a child together. Nelson is the stepmother of Dodge's son from a previous relationship.[5]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "Maggie Nelson — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  2. ↑ "Maggie Nelson | Faculty/Staff Directory". directory.calarts.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  3. ↑ Hilton, Als (April 18, 2016). "Immediate Family: Maggie Nelson's life in words". The New Yorker.
  4. ↑ Larson, Thomas (24 January 2011). "Now, Where Was I? : On Maggie Nelson's Bluets". TriQuarterly. Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  6. ↑ MFA Program News and Events
  7. ↑ National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows
  8. ↑ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. 2015-11-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  9. ↑ Alexandra Alter (March 17, 2016). "'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle's Fiction Award". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.

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