Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, editor, and professor. Winner of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, Marshall is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love (2022). Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall is the recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and Emory University, among others. Her poems and essays have been published in or are forthcoming in numerous collections and publications including Prose for the People (Penguin Random House, 2025), American Poetry Review, the Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner. She serves as an acquiring editor for Haymarket Books and as a program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a literary fellowship for writers impacted by carceral systems.
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The 2025 Visiting Writers Program is generously supported by The Rona Jaffe Foundation.
