Maya Venters

Writer, etc.

Maya is a Canadian writer, editor, and visual artist based in Central America.She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of St. Thomas (TX, USA), a B.A. in English Literature & Rhetoric from St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo (Canada), and a Diploma in the History of European Painting from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Poetry London, Literary Matters, The Literary Review of Canada, The New Verse Review, and THINK, among others, and have been shortlisted for the Pablo Neurda Prize for Poetry (Nimrod) and the Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry.Maya's chapbook Life Cycle of a Mayfly won the Vallum Chapbook Award.