Maia Brown-Jackson

Award-winning, Pushcart-nominated writer Maia Brown-Jackson is a symphony of papercuts, banged-up knees, and stubborn determination. She believes in the altruism of strangers, the power of direct action, and the Oxford comma. Her work has taken her everywhere from art galleries and museums to a nonproliferation nonprofit to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have been published in such journals, magazines, and anthologies as Across the Margin, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bi Women Quarterly, Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca, Maudlin House, Prime Number Magazine, and others. Her debut poetry collection, And My Blood Sang, was published by Tim Saunders Publications in 2023.

Her second collection, Gifted, is now available via Nymeria Publishing. In her spare time, she volunteers with a Yazidi NGO, accidentally starts learning quantum physics when she looks up the qualities of neutrinos for a poem, and plays with the world's sweetest, clumsiest cat.