Maya Pindyck is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Impossible Belonging (2023), selected by Carmen Giménez for the Philip Levine Prize and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also co-author of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (2022), shortlisted for the UKLA Academic Book Award. Recent poems appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bennington Review, and Plume. Pindyck’s visual, collaborative, and community-based work has been exhibited at The Clemente, Milton Art Bank, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, the Art in Odd Places Public Festival, and elsewhere. Her scholarship, which explores educational inequities, race, memory, and capacities of creative practices, has been published in journals such as International Review of Qualitative Research and Gender and Education. Her honors include fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Historic House Trust of New York City, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received her PhD in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She is an associate professor in the Creative & Critical Studies department at Moore College of Art & Design, where she directs the writing program.

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

(Emily Dickinson)