Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (forthcoming from Picador in June 2023) and American Faith, winner of the 2020 North American Book Prize. Her pamphlet, Dear Life, was the winner of the 2021 PBS pamphlet competition. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, on the role of wonder in poetry. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor of Publishers Weekly and teaches at NYU and elsewhere.