Maggie Nelson is an acclaimed American writer known for her boundary-crossing works. Her writing spans a variety of forms including autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry. Nelson has earned prestigious recognition for her literary contributions, receiving a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2011 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Her remarkable achievements also include winning the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and being granted a 2007 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.

Nelson is the author of nine books, which have received significant attention and praise. The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), one of her nonfiction works, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and became a New York Times bestseller. Other notable works include The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011), Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), The Red Parts (Free Press, 2007), and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry includes titles like Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005), the latter being a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir.