Maggie Nelson
American writer and academic
Maggie Nelson is an American writer whose work moves between memoir, criticism and poetry. She is best known for The Argonauts, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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American Born 1973 in San Francisco, United States
About Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson was born in 1973 and has written poetry, memoir, art criticism and scholarship. Her 2015 book The Argonauts won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New York Times bestseller. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. She has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and a Creative Capital fellowship. Nelson holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has taught at the New School, Pratt Institute, Wesleyan University and the University of Southern California.