about

photo credit: Michael Dantzler

 

Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, and scholar. She is the author of the debut full-length poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love (2022) and the chapbook Secondhand (2016). She is a cofounder of underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision.

Marshall, an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Adelphi University, has taught at Emory University and Northwestern University. She holds fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Vermont Studio Center and elsewhere. Her writing has been published in Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She works as an editor for Haymarket Books.

Marshall was raised in Texas and Georgia, earned her MFA from the University of South Carolina, and made a home in Chicago for nearly twenty years. She lives in Broolyn, New York.

 

Maya is available for readings, seminars, lectures & workshops, manuscript consulation & editing.