The Slicks

Among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation – Olivia LaingOne of the most unique voices in non-fiction: enquiring, political, lyrically dazzling, empathetic – Sinéad GleesonAlways brilliant – Geoff DyerHer words come as though from a great distance and strike incredibly close – Anne EnrightMaggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating – Eula BissMaggie Nelson who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today – Wayne Koestenbaum

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.