Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith(Sarabande, 2019) a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize selected by Ocean Vuong. Her pamphlet The Bees Have Been Cancelled was named a Poetry Book Society Choice in 2017, and You Always Wished the Animals Would Leavewas published in 2018 by the DIAGRAM chapbook series. She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation and the Oxford Poetry Society among others. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weeklyand director ofthe Creative Writing Program at the Nightingale-Bamford School, where she teaches English literature. She a graduate of Oxford University’s MSt in Creative Writing and is currently a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London.