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.[1]
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