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==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
*2007 Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/[[Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts]].<ref name="mfa_wyonming">[http://www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting/news-events/index.html MFA Program News and Events]</ref>
*2007 Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/[[Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts]].<ref name="mfa_wyonming">[http://www.uwyo.edu/creativewriting/news-events/index.html MFA Program News and Events]</ref>
*2011 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship for Poetry.<ref name="NEA">[http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows]</ref>
*2011 [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship for Poetry.<ref name="NEA">[http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127065351/http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php |date=2010-11-27 }}</ref>
*2015 [[New York Times Notable Book]], ''The Argonauts''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2015.html|title=100 Notable Books of 2015|date=2015-11-27|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>
*2015 [[New York Times Notable Book]], ''The Argonauts''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2015.html|title=100 Notable Books of 2015|date=2015-11-27|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-09}}</ref>
*2016 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Criticism), winner for ''Argonauts''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/business/the-sellout-wins-national-book-critics-circles-fiction-award.html |title=‘The Sellout’ Wins National Book Critics Circle’s Fiction Award |work=[[New York Times]] |author=Alexandra Alter |date=March 17, 2016 |accessdate=March 18, 2016}}</ref>
*2016 [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] (Criticism), winner for ''Argonauts''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/business/the-sellout-wins-national-book-critics-circles-fiction-award.html |title=‘The Sellout’ Wins National Book Critics Circle’s Fiction Award |work=[[New York Times]] |author=Alexandra Alter |date=March 17, 2016 |accessdate=March 18, 2016}}</ref>

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Maggie Nelson
Born1973
NationalityAmerican
Genresnon-fiction, poetry, memoir
Notable awardsMacArthur 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, the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute, and CalArts; she is currently a Professor of English at USC.[2][3][4]

Themes

Nelson's work has included writing on art, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory and philosophy.[5]

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.[6]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

  • Shiner (Hanging Loose Press, 2001). OCLC 45223536
  • The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003). OCLC 50868215
  • Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005). OCLC 57506563
  • The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007). OCLC 71275645
  • Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2007). OCLC 148844319
  • Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). OCLC 609313973
  • Bluets (Wave Books, 2009). OCLC 303931395
  • The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). OCLC 668194794
  • The Argonauts (Graywolf Press 2015). OCLC 889165103

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. ^ "Maggie Nelson > Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". dornsife.usc.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  5. ^ Larson, Thomas (24 January 2011). "Now, Where Was I? : On Maggie Nelson's Bluets". TriQuarterly. Northwestern University. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. ^ "The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  7. ^ MFA Program News and Events
  8. ^ National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. 2015-11-27. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-09.
  10. ^ 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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