Maya Pindyck

Maya Pindyck’s third poetry collection Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books) and Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press), winner of the Many Voices Project Award, and co-author of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury, 2022). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design. She grew up in Boston and Tel Aviv.

  • Risk Factor

    After the reading, a young Jewish woman