Maggie Nelson
April 29–30, 2024
Bio
Maggie Nelson is a poet, scholar, and nonfiction
writer who currently teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of
the Arts. On top of her many publications, she has received grants and fellowships from
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol
Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is the author of poetry collections
Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull Press,
2005), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003), and Shiner (Hanging Loose
Press, 2001). She has also written genre-defying collections of lyrical prose, including
The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), and Bluets (Wave Books, 2009). The Argonauts
won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and was a New York Times
best-seller. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1994 and a PhD from the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2004.