Maya Pindyck is a poet, artist, and educator. Her most recent book, Impossible Belonging, won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a National Poetry Series finalist. She is also author of the poetry collections Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, winner of the Many Voices Project Award, and coauthor of the education book A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers: Reorienting Classroom Literacy Practices. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Poetry Award, and grants from the Historic House Trust of New York City and Abortion Conversation Projects. 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, Governors Island Art Fair, Printed Matter, Chashama, and elsewhere. Her scholarship on creative practices, systemic inequities, and schooling appears in various journals, including Gender and Education, English Journal, International Journal of Education Through Art, and Sex Education. Pindyck lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant 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)