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 also writes playscripts and screenplays, concocting a queer feminist magic realism that centres (and adores) creatures, monsters, and the otherwise peripheral fabulous.

She has featured in plays, short films, and cabarets, creating/performing acts at BAR WOTEVER, Tramshed, Club Silly, and TAKDAJA. She has directed and assisant-directed for KDC Theatre.

She makes art pop for outsiders as Maya Celia, and is currently working on her debut EP with Iona Catherine Productions.

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.