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Maggie Nelson
CNFMaggie Nelson is the author of several acclaimed books of poetry and prose, including Like Love: Essays and Conversations (2024), the national bestseller On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021), the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and international bestseller The Argonauts (2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), Bluets (2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years), The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (2007), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007), Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), and Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir). Nelson has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, an Innovative Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation, and a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Since 2017 she has been a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A new book titled Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is forthcoming from Wave Books in Spring 2025. Photo by Sarah St. Clair Renard.
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