Maggie Nelson is an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of books such as Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Something Bright, Then Holes, Jane: A Murder, The Latest Winter, Shiner, and Bluets. Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and Pratt Institute of Art; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. In 2007, she received an Arts Writers grant from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.