Maya Pindyck is a poet, multidisciplinary artist, and scholar. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Impossible Belonging (2023), selected by Carmen Giménez for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Recent works have been published in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, and Plume.

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. She collaborates with Carla Repice on SEND A FRIEND, a mail art project responding to the 2024 U.S. election.

Pindyck is coauthor with Dr. Ruth Vinz of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (2022), shortlisted for the UKLA Academic Book Award. Her scholarship on educational inequities, whiteness, feelings, and liberatory capacities of creative practices appears in various journals, including English Journal, Gender and Education, International Journal of Education Through Art, and International Review of Qualitative Research.

A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, she earned her PhD in English education from Columbia University's Teachers College, her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and her BA in studio art and philosophy from Connecticut College. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia where she is an associate professor 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)