Maya Venters


Writer. Editor. Artist.

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Maya is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist.Maya received her B.A. in English Literature & Rhetoric from St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo, and a Diploma in the History of European Painting from Trinity College Dublin. She was trained in various dry media at the Tenaglia School of Art, specializing in soft pastels. Maya is now an MFA candidate at the University of St. Thomas (TX).Her poems have recently appeared in Rattle, The Literary Review of Canada, Modern Age, and Ekstasis, among others.Maya's chapbook Life Cycle of a Mayfly won the 2023 Vallum Chapbook Award.

Life Cycle of a Mayfly

Winner of the 2023 Vallum Chapbook Award"[Maya] is a poet acutely attuned to the sensuousness of language, but her touch is light and can be stealthy. " - Matthew King, New Verse Review"[Maya's] careful poetry avoids the easy delineation of beginning, middle, end. Rather, cycles of birth and death overlap... As [her] descriptions and phrases repeat, language itself takes on the cycle. - Rosie Long Decter, Vallum Press"With the same lightness of touch required to bounce the hand-tied fly off the water, [Maya] deftly flicks back and forth through time, casting her line between the keen view of a child and the backward glance of an adult eye." -- Anna Farrow, The Catholic Register

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