Maggie Nelson is the author of several books of prose and poetry including The Red Parts, Bluets, the National Book Critics Circle Award-winner The Argonauts, On Freedom, Like Love and, most recently, Pathemata. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation -- Olivia Laing One of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic -- Sinéad Gleeson Always brilliant -- Geoff Dyer Her words come as though from a great distance and strike incredibly close -- Anne Enright Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating -- Eula Biss Maggie Nelson who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today -- Wayne Koestenbaum