Faculty/Staff Directory
Maggie Nelson
Faculty
Website: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/62
E-Mail:
Phone: 661.255.1050 x2025
Fax: 661.255.0177
Room: E115
Teaching Interests: Poetics; Non-Fiction
Maggie Nelson (Ph.D. Literature, CUNY Graduate Center) is the author of four books of nonfiction: a critically acclaimed work of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011); a meditation on the color blue, Bluets (Wave Books, 2009); a critical study of poetry and painting, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant); and an autobiographical book about sexual violence and media spectacle, The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan). She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007); Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003), and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001; finalist, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award). Her poetry has been widely anthologized, and included in The Best American Poetry series.
Before joining the faculty of CalArts in 2005, Nelson lived in New York City, and taught literature and writing at Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute of Art, and the New School Graduate Writing Program. She has also taught on the faculty of the Tinhouse Summer Writers Workshop and been a Distinguished Guest of the New School's Summer Writers Colony. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Artforum, Bookforum, and Cabinet. Recent awards include a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry.
Links
- Review of The Art of Cruelty in The New York Times
- Review of Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions in BookForum
- Review of The Red Parts in The New York Times
- Reviewof Something Bright, Then Holes in The Village Voice
