Maya C. Popa is the author of If You Love That Lady, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder, and American Faith, as well as three chapbooks. She is the poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at New York University.
Her poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, and Poetry, among others.
Popa holds a doctorate degree in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London; a masters degree from Oxford University where she was a Clarendon Scholar; and an MFA degree from New York University. She is the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, a global online writing platform and community providing ongoing literary education and support outside formal academia.
selected bibliography
If You Love That Lady (2026)
Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (2022)
American Faith (2019)
You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave (2018)
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