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Maggie Nelson was born on 1973 in San Francisco, California, United States, is an American writer. Discover Maggie Nelson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

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1973

Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer.

She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry.

Nelson was born in 1973, the second daughter of Bruce and Barbara Nelson.

She grew up in Marin County, California.

1984

Her parents divorced when she was eight, and then, in 1984, Nelson's father died of a heart attack.

1990

She moved to Connecticut in 1990 to study English at Wesleyan University where she was taught by Annie Dillard.

After college, she lived in New York City where she trained as a dancer, worked at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and studied informally with writer Eileen Myles.

1998

In 1998, she enrolled in a graduate program, obtaining a Ph.D. in English literature in 2004 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

At CUNY, Nelson studied with Wayne Koestenbaum and Eve Sedgwick, among others.

2005

She left New York in 2005 to take up a teaching job at the California Institute of the Arts.

Nelson is the author of several books of nonfiction and poetry.

She also writes frequently on art, including essays on artists Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, A. L. Steiner, Kara Walker, and Rachel Harrison.

Nelson has taught about writing, critical theory, art, aesthetics, and literature, at the graduate writing program of the New School, Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute of Arts, and CalArts.

, she was a professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Nelson is married to the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered.

They live with their family in Los Angeles.

Jane: A Murder (2005) explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related "true crime" books, and fragments from Jane's own diaries.

Part elegy, part memoir, detective story, part meditation on sexual violence, and part conversation between the living and the dead, Jane is widely recognized as having expanded the notion of what poetry can do—what kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them.

It was a finalist for the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.

2007

Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007) is a scholarly book about gender and abstract expressionism from the 1950s through the 1980s.

It focuses on the work of painter Joan Mitchell, poets Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, and poets Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles.

The Red Parts (2007) and Jane: A Murder (2005) both contend with the murder of Nelson's aunt Jane near Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1969.

The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (2007) picks up where Jane left off, offering a prose account of the trial of a new suspect in Jane's murder 36 years after the fact.

Written in plain, trenchant prose reminiscent of Joan Didion, The Red Parts is a coming of age story, a documentary account of a trial, and a provocative essay interrogating the American obsession with violence and missing white women, and the nature of grief, justice, and empathy.

Nelson's collections of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001).

2008

In 2008 the book was awarded the Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.

2009

Bluets (2009) is an unclassifiable book of prose written in numbered segments that deals with pain, pleasure, heartbreak, and the consolations of philosophy, all through the lens of the color blue.

It quickly became a cult classic, and was named by Bookforum as one of the 10 best books of the past 20 years.

2011

The Art of Cruelty (2011), 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 was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

The book covers a wide range of topics, from Sylvia Plath's poetry to Francis Bacon's paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono's performance art, and offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.

2015

Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.

The Argonauts (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and was a New York Times best-seller.

It is a work of autotheory, offering thinking about desire, identity, family-making, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language.

In the memoir, Nelson documented the changes in her body throughout pregnancy with her son, Iggy, and that of her husband Harry Dodge's body after commencing testosterone and undergoing chest reconstruction ('top surgery').

Nelson has described it as reflecting 20 years of living with and learning from feminist and queer theory.

2016

Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction.