Humanities Week Presents "Hybrid Writing - Reading by Maggie Nelson"
Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, including The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011), the cult hit Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007), and Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She is also the author of four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005). A recipient of a Guggenheim in nonfiction and an NEA in poetry, she is currently at work on a new nonfiction project supported by a Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. She is a faculty member in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Los Angeles.