About me
Maya Jewell Zeller is a multi-genre author of several books and collaborations, most recently Raised by Ferns, a memoir-in-essays just out from Porphyry Press, and The Wonder of Mushrooms (AdventureKEEN, fall 2025); as well as out takes/ glove box, selected by Eduardo Corral as winner of the 2022 New American Poetry Prize; and the co-authored textbook (with Kathryn Nuernberger) Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2024). Maya’s prose appears widely, and her essay, “Scavenger Panorama,” was honored by Vivian Gornick as a Notable in Best American Essays 2023. Maya is Professor of English for Central Washington University, and Affiliate Faculty of Poetry and Nature Writing for Western Colorado University’s low-residency MFA program. Mayalives in the Inland Northwest with her children. Follow her on Substack at Spores From the Northwest.
