Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of If You Love That Lady (W.W. Norton, 2026), Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022), and American Faith (Sarabande Books, 2019), as well as three chapbooks. She is the poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and teaches poetry at NYU.

Popa holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London; an MA from Oxford University, where she was a Clarendon Scholar; and an MFA from NYU. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College, where she worked closely with the late Saskia Hamilton. In 2015, Popa received The Editors Prize from the Poetry Foundation for her essay "Forever Writing From Ireland."

She is the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, a global online writing platform and community providing ongoing literary education and support outside formal academia.