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

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

, 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

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

Fellowship for Poetry.

External links

• New York Times review of The Art of Cruelty
• 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 W. W. Norton & Company
• Maggie Nelson's Author page at Wave Books
• A review of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
• Maggie Nelson on PennSound
• Maggie Nelson's page at CalARTS