Visiting Writers Lecture Series

Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, including The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (WW Norton, 2011), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the Susanne M. Glascock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship), and The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan), as well as four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. Currently she teaches writing, art, theory, and literature in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.