Maggie Nelson is the recent author of a critical study about poetry and painting titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007), as well as a fourth collection of poetry, Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007). Her previous books of poems include Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003), and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001; finalist, the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award). She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and has taught writing and literature at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Pratt Institute of Art, and Wesleyan University. In 2007 she was awarded an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Currently she teaches on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and lives in Los Angeles. A book about the color blue, titled Bluets, is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2009.
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