Maya C. Popa is the author of three poetry collections: If You Love That Lady (W.W. Norton, July 2026), Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton, 2022), named one of The Guardian’s best books of poetry, and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), winner of the North American Book Prize. Her poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, and received her MA at Oxford University and her MFA from NYU. She is the Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly and the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, a global online writing community for poets and prose writers. Her eponymous newsletter has been one of Substack’s top literature publications since 2023 and reaches over 22,000 subscribers.