10 Facts About Maggie Nelson

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Maggie Nelson was born on 1973 and is an American writer.

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Maggie Nelson was born in 1973, the second daughter of Bruce and Barbara Maggie Nelson.

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Maggie Nelson's parents divorced when she was eight after her mother fell in love with their house painter.

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Maggie Nelson moved to Connecticut in 1990 to study English at Wesleyan University where she was taught by Annie Dillard.

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At CUNY, Maggie Nelson studied with Wayne Koestenbaum and Eve Sedgewick, among others.

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Maggie Nelson left New York in 2005 to take up a teaching job at the California Institute of the Arts.

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Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of nonfiction and poetry.

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Maggie Nelson has taught about writing, critical theory, art, aesthetics, and literature, at the graduate writing program of the New School, Wesleyan University, Pratt Institute of Arts, and CalArts.

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Maggie Nelson is married to the artist Harry Dodge, who is fluidly gendered.

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Maggie Nelson has described it as reflecting 20 years of living with and learning from feminist and queer theory.