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Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith (Sarabande Books 2019), which was the recipient of the 2020 North American Book Prize, and Wound is the Origin of Wonder, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2022. Her pamphlet, Dear Life, won the 2021 PBS pamphlet competition. She is the Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly and teaches at NYU and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London writing on the role of wonder in poetry.