The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir, Bluets, and, recently, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson’s poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright, Then Holes.

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.

For more information about the event, please contact Micah Perks by email atmeperks@ucsc.edu. Books will be available for sale at the talk, courtesy of the Bay Tree Bookstore.

The Fall 2011 Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Puknat Literary Fund, the Porter Hitchcock Fund, the UCSC Literature Department, and the Sain Endowment.