Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual artist Carrie DeBacker) Alchemy For Cells & Other Beasts, the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees, and the poetry collection Rust Fish. She is also co-editor, with Sharma Shields, of the anthology, Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest (Scablands, 2021) and co-author, with Kathryn Nuernberger, of the academic textbook, Advanced Poetry: Pathways Into Poetic Lineages (forthcoming from Bloomsbury UK). Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation as well as a Residency in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Maya has presented her work internationally at the University of Oxford and in Madrid at the Unamuno Author Festival. Currently, she is Associate Professor of English for Central Washington University and Affiliate Faculty in the Poetry and Nature Writing low-residency MFA programs of Western Colorado University. Find Maya on Twitter @MayaJZeller.