Maggie Nelson is most recently the author of The Red Parts (2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007). Her previous books of poetry include Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001). A recipient of a 2007 Creative Capital Arts Writers grant, she currently teaches at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles.

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