Maria Nazos

Maria Nazos is the author of the poetry collection PULSE (Omnidawn, 2026) and the translation collection The Slow Horizon that Breathes (World Poetry Books, 2023) by the poet Dimitra Kotoula, longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award.

Her poetry, translations, and essays have been widely published in hundreds of journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, Poets & Writers, The Mid-American Review, The Columbia Review, Poetry Foundation, The North American Review, and The Birmingham Poetry Review. Kaveh Akbar recognized her work as a winner of the Palette Poetry Love & Eros Contest.

Her work received a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Mayor’s Award, and a Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts residency.

After many tumultuous careers as a whale-watching boat attendant, a table dancer, and, arguably, the worst waitress on the Eastern Seaboard, she has settled into a quieter life as a digital content developer in Lincoln, Nebraska.