Steiner, Kara Walker, and Rachel Harrison. She also writes frequently on art, including essays on artists Sarah Lucas, Matthew Barney, Carolee Schneemann, A. Nelson is the author of several books of nonfiction and poetry. She left New York in 2005 to take up a teaching job at the California Institute of the Arts. At CUNY, Nelson studied with Wayne Koestenbaum and Eve Sedgewick, among others. in English literature in 2004 at the CUNY Graduate Center. In 1998, she enrolled in a graduate program, obtaining a Ph.D. Mark's Church, and studied informally with writer Eileen Myles. After college, she lived in New York City where she trained as a dancer, worked at the Poetry Project at St. She moved to Connecticut in 1990 to study English at Wesleyan University where she was taught by Annie Dillard. In 1984, Nelson's father died of a heart attack. Her parents divorced when she was eight after her mother fell in love with their house painter. Nelson was born in 1973, the second daughter of Bruce and Barbara Nelson.
Other honors include the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. 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. Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer.
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