Reading Series - Maya C. Popa

The Creative Writing Reading Series is proud to host Maya C. Popa for a public reading and discussion. All are welcome! Maya C. Popa is the author of two collections, Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022) named one of the Guardian’s recent best books of poetry, and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and winner of the North American Book Prize.

Her poems and essays appear in The Atlantic, the Nation, Poetry, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was a recipient of the English department bursary for exceptional merit. She was previously a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University, where she received her MA, and a Veterans Fellow at NYU, where she earned her MFA. Her newsletter, Poetry Today, is one of Substack’s best-selling literature publications. Since 2018, she has served as the Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly and Director of Creative Writing at the Nightingale-Bamford School. She teaches advanced poetry at NYU and runs the online writing community Conscious Writers Collective.