Poet and lyrical essayist Maria Nazos is the author of A Hymn That Meanders, published by Wising Up Press. She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. This fall she will be a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's English PhD program where she will be a Chancellor's fellow. Her chapbook entitled 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 Santa Fe Art Institute, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and fellowships from the University of Nebraska, Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Also, she is a proud member of the Wising Up Press Editorial Collective. She teaches College Writing at Cape Cod Community College and resides in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work is published or forthcoming in The New Ohio Review, Raleigh Review, Stymie Magazine, Inkwell, The Saranac Review, The anthology Wait a Minute, I Have to Take off My Bra, 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. |
 Photos courtesy of Jeannette de Beauvoir |
