Maggie Nelson
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Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of four books of nonfiction: Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007), The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007), and The Art of Cruelty (WW Norton, 2011). Nelson is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003) and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001). She has been the recipient of an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Nonfiction. She has taught writing and literature at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art. Nelson currently lives in Los Angeles where she teaches on the BFA and MFA faculty of the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts.
Recipient of a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Nonfiction -
Reviews of books by Maggie Nelson
Bluets
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- Maggie Nelson’s CalArts faculty home page
Articles
- “On Color” (in Bookforum)
Interviews and Discussions
- The Poetry Foundation, with Wave author Anthony McCann
- BOMBlog, with Susie Deford
- Chaparral Review, with Kim Young
- continent, with Evan Lavender-Smith
- Cecil Vortex, with Dan Brodnitz
- Here Comes Everybody
- A conversation between Maggie Nelson and Wayne Koestenbaum in The Poetry Project Newsletter
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- Maggie Nelson’s PennSound audio archive page
- Reading in the KWLS New Voices Spotlight
- Reading from Bluets forLA-Lit
- CABINET reading, with CAConrad, Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum, and others
- Interview with Eileen Myles on KCRW’s Bookworm, with Michael Silverblatt
Reading at the Festival of Poets:
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Friday MAY 31, 2013 6:30pm
Maggie Nelson will give a reading and interview at The Little Church. The event is free but seats must be reserved in advance. To do so, please contact Kathryn Martini at MaggieNelsonMay31@gmail.com.
5138 NE 23rd Ave., Portland, OR 97211
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By Maggie Nelson Publication Date: October 1, 2009 ISBN# 9781933517407 (5x8 112pp, paper) Description Reviews...
