Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, including The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (WW Norton, 2011; named a Notable Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times), the cult hit Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), The Red Parts: A Memoir (Free Press, 2007; named a Notable Book of the Year by the State of Michigan), and Women, The New York School, And Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007, winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship). She is also the author of four books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir). A recipient of a Guggenheim in nonfiction and an NEA in poetry, she is currently at work on a new nonfiction project supported by a Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. After many years of living and teaching in New York City, she joined the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in 2005. She currently lives in Los Angeles.