![]() he recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, scholarship, and poetry. ![]() Nelson’s Wikipedia bio attempts to tame the unruliness of her wild career. ![]() Nelson, a New York Times best-selling author, is that rare bird, the “cult favorite” who lives and works in that tiny triangle where bestsellerdom, artistry, and radical thought meet. More likely, you encountered her in one of the left-of-mainstream worlds she and her readers inhabit: feminist academia, poetry, queerness, art criticism, radical motherhood, radical family, radical thought, radical everything. WHO IS MAGGIE NELSON? If you’ve heard of her if you’ve read her, how were you introduced? Probably not in an airport book shop, nor on the fourth floor of your local big-box book emporium. ![]()
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