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A Conversation with Maggie Nelson

April 30 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

About the Author:

MAGGIE NELSON is a poet, scholar, and nonfiction writer who currently teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. On top of her many publications, she has received grants and fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is the author of poetry collections Something BrightThen Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull press, 2005), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003), and Shiner (Hanging Loose Press, 2001). She has also written genre-defying collections of lyrical prose, including The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), and Bluets (Wave Books, 2009). The Argonauts won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and was a New York Times best-seller. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 1994 and a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2004.

Details

Date:
April 30
Time:
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Website:
https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/0424.php

Venue

The Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104 United States
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Organizer

The Kelly Writers House