Maya Pindyck is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, and scholar based in Philadelphia. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Impossible Belonging (2023), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and a finalist for National Jewish Book Award. Recent works have been published in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Plume, and Granta (Hebrew edition). She has exhibited her visual, collaborative, and community-based work at the Milton Art Bank (Milton, PA) and in New York City at The Clemente, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, Art in Odd Places Public Festival, Printed Matter, Chashama, and Governors Island Art Fair, among other places. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, and a grant from the Historic House Trust of NYC's Contemporary Art Partnerships program. Pindyck is coauthor of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (2022), shortlisted for the UKLA Academic Book Award. Her scholarship on educational inequities, feelings, and capacities of creative practices appears in various journals, including Gender and Education, English Journal, International Journal of Education Through Art, and Sex Education. She is an assistant professor, chair of Creative & Critical Studies, and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design.

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"I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you-- Nobody-- too?"

(Emily Dickinson)