about

Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. Winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love (2022) and the chapbook Secondhand (2016). Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision.

She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee's Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and Emory University, among others. Her poems and essays have been published in or are forthcoming in numerous collections and publications including Prose for the People (Penguin Random House, 2025), American Poetry Review, the Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Boston Review, Poets.Org, Split This Rock, and Best New Poets.

Marshall serves as an editor-at-large for Haymarket Books and as a program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a literary fellowship for writers impacted by carceral systems. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University.

Raised in Texas and Georgia, Marshall spent the bulk of her adult life in Chicago, Illinois. Currently, she splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Decatur, Georgia. For bookings for readings, talks, workshops, or teaching, please reach out to her at mayamarshallpoetry AT GMAIL DOT com.

Maya is available for readings, seminars, lectures & workshops, manuscript consulation & editing.