Discipline: Literature – poetry

Maya Marshall

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Chicago, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Maya Marshall is an editor and a poet. She is co-founder of underbellymag.com, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall has earned fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, Cave Canem, the Community of Writers, and The Watering Hole. She has served as a senior editor for [PANK] and works as a manuscript editor for Haymarket Books. Her poems have appeared in RHINO, Potomac Review, Blackbird, and elsewhere.

While at MacDowell, Marshall worked on a crown of sonnets considering queer and familial love. The poems she wrote and revised during her time there are the final movement of her debut collection of poems, currently titled All The Blood Involved in Love. Marshall’s poems have recently been selected for Best New Poets 2019 and have received a Pushcart nomination.

Studios

Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)

Maya Marshall worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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