The President's Reading Series Presents: Maggie Nelson

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Maggie Nelson, a writer and professor of English at the University of Southern California, will give a reading as part of the President's Reading Series, followed by a Q&A. Please attend the event by using the Zoom link.

Maggie Nelson is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the upcoming On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press, 2021); the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015); The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011; a New York Times Notable Book of the Year); Bluets (Wave Books, 2009; named by Bookforum as one of the top 10 best books of the past 20 years); The Red Parts (reissued by Graywolf, 2016); and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (U of Iowa Press, 2007). Her poetry titles include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir). In 2016 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, an Innovative Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Currently, she is a professor of English at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

All events this spring from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins will be held virtually, and are free and open to the public.