MAYA OWEN

Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies; longlisted for Palette Poetry’s Emerging Poet Prize, Foundlings Press’ Ralph Angel Poetry Prize (selected by Mary Ruefle); and highlighted in Frontier Poetry’s list of Exceptional Poetry From Around the Web.

She writes what she calls “sci fi eco-poetry”, as well as playscripts and screenplays, wherein she creates a queer feminist theatre of the absurd, centring creatures, monsters, and the otherwise peripheral fabulous.

She has acted in plays, short films, and cabarets, debuting original acts at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s BAR WOTEVER, Tramshed, Club Silly, and TAKDAJA. Having directed and assistant-directed her first shows with KDC Theatre, she aims to direct more theatre and film projects. She sometimes loiters in the background of feature films and TV shows.

She performs as a contemporary solo vocalist, as well as in bands and choirs. She currently makes outsider art pop music as Maya Celia.

If you meet her at a party, she will tell you she is Mad, gay, Jewish, and once broke into the British Museum inside a wooden horse. She hopes one day to see a whale in real life.