Poet Maria Nazos received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her chapbook, Trailer Park Heart, was selected by Marge Piercy as runner-up for the 2010 Providence Athenaeum Philbrick Poetry Project Award. She has received scholarships from The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. Her work won the Fall 2009 Poetry Competition held by The Alabama State Poetry Society. She attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop for non-degree credit. Recently, she became a proud member of the Wising Up Press Editorial Collective. 

Her work is published or forthcoming in Inkwell, The Saranac Review, The anthology Wait a Minute, I Have to Take off My Bra, The Neuropsychiatry of Poetry, The Boxcar Poetry Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Poet Lore, The New York Quarterly, Harpur Palate, The New Plains Review, The Sycamore Review, Main Street Rag, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Tar River Poetry, and the anthology Double Lives, Reinventing, and Those We Leave Behind. She lives and writes on the world's edge: Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Santa Teresa, Costa Rica.