About

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Maya Pindyck is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Impossible Belonging, selected by Carmen Giménez for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the co-author of the educational resource A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers, shortlisted for the UKLA Academic Book Award. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares, Plume, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her visual, collaborative, and community-based work has been shown widely, including at The Clemente, Milton Art Bank, the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum, the Art in Odd Places Public Festival, and Chashama. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America, 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)