MAYA (celia) 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, constructing a queer feminist magic realism that centres the creature, the monster, and the otherwise peripheral fabulous. Two of her short plays, YOU DON’T HAVE TO STAY HERE BUT YOU CAN’T GO HOME and SPREAD have been/will be produced, respectively, as part of KDC Theatre‘s New Writing Competition and for UntoldCollectiv‘s Short & Mighty programme.

She now 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.