![]() ![]() MacArthur Foundation, the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the NEA. Nelson’s many honors and awards include grants and fellowships from the John D. Her genre-bending memoir The Argonauts (2015) was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award. ![]() Her critical study of aesthetics and cruelty, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Glassock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. She is the author of an account of sexual violence and the media, The Red Parts: A Memoir (2007), and a critical work on the New York School poets, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007), which won a Susanne M. Her other collections of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), Jane: A Murder (2005), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001), which was a finalist for a Norma Farber First Book Award. Her work is often described as genre crossing or hybrid she has noted her interest in poet Eileen Myles’s idea of “vernacular scholarship,” adding, “I need to talk back, or talk with, theorists and philosophers in ordinary language, to dramatize how much their ideas matter to me in my everyday life.” Nelson’s book Bluets (2009) is perhaps her most well-known work mix of scholarship and poetry. ![]() Poet, scholar, and nonfiction writer Maggie Nelson earned a PhD in English literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. ![]()
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