Maya Jewell Zeller

MAYA JEWELL ZELLER is the author of out takes/ glove box, chosen by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize; as well as the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual artist Carrie DeBacker) Alchemy For Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Rios Books, 2017); the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015); and the poetry collection Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011). She is co-editor, with Sharma Shields, of the anthology Evergreen: Grim Tales and Fables from the Gloomy Northwest (Scablands Books, 2021). Maya's prose appears in The Rumpus, Diagram, Brevity, Bellingham Review, Booth Journal, and elsewhere. Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation as well as a Residency in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Maya has presented her work internationally at the University of Oxford and in Madrid at the Unamuno Author Festival. Currently, she is Associate Professor of English for Central Washington University, Affiliate Faculty for Western Colorado University's low-residency MFA, and Poetry Editor for Scablands Books. Her WIPs are a memoir called "Raised by Ferns" (runner-up in the 2022 AWP Sue Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction), as well as the academic textbook, Advanced Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (forthcoming from Bloomsbury UK, January 2024). Find Maya on Twitter @MayaJZeller.