Maggie Nelson | |
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 Maggie Nelson at the San Francisco Public Library | |
| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow |
| Spouse | Harry Dodge |
| Children | 2 |
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 has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship,[1] a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship,[2] a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry,[3] and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.
- ^ "Maggie Nelson". www.macfound.org.
- ^ "Maggie Nelson". Creative Capital.
- ^ "NEA Literature Fellowships 2011, Maggie Nelson".