Maya Janson’s second poetry collection, “On the Mercy Me Planet” was published in 2022 by Blue Edge Books and was selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Janson’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Threepenney Review, Plume, Best American Poetry and elsewhere. She has been a recipient of a Massachusetts Artist Grant and has been a fellow at MacDowell. Janson has been a lecturer in poetry at Smith College and is currently employed as a nurse with Windhorse Integrative Mental Health in Northampton.
