Maya Jewell Zeller
Professor
Maya Jewell Zeller (she/her) is the author, most recently, of the forthcoming memoir-in-essays Raised by Ferns(Porphyry, 2026) and the lyrical field guide The Wonder of Mushrooms (AdventureKEEN, Sept 2025); as well as the textbook Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, Jan 2024); and the poetry collection, out takes/ glove box, which was selected by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize. Other poetry collections include the collaboration Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Rios 2017); the chapbook, Yesterday, the Bees(Floating Bridge Press, 2015); and Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011). Maya’s work has received fellowships from University of Oxford, Washington State Artist Trust, Centrum, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She serves as Associate Professor in CWU's BA and MA programs, teaching courses in poetry and poetics, blurred-genre, experimental, and hybrid genre writing, nonfiction, fiction, publishing, and literature, with special topics in ekphrasis, docupoetics, ecopoetics, prose poetry, intersectionality, social justice, duende and dreams, and the writer's life. Zeller also co-coordinates the Professional and Creative Writing BA program at CWU and serves on the University Sustainability in the Curriculum Team.
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