Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of poetry, including 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). She is also the author of two books of nonfiction: The Red Parts, a nonfiction book about her family, media spectacle, sexual violence, and criminal justice (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan), and a critical study about poetry and painting titled Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007; winner of the 2008 Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship). Her next book will be a work of creative nonfiction about the color blue titled Bluets, due out from Wave Books in Fall 2009. Before coming to CalArts, Nelson taught literature and writing at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Pratt Institute of Art, and Wesleyan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in 2007 she was awarded an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Maggie’s author page at Wave Books is currently the best source for reviews, interviews, and appearances: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/62.

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