The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems - Maya Catherine Popa

Popa, Maya Catherine: - maya catherine popa is a writer and teacher in New York City. She holds an mfa in Poetry from nyu and an mst in Writing from Oxford University, where she was the recipient of a Clarendon Scholarship. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Barnard College in 2011.

A Ruth Lilly finalist, she is the recipient of the Editors Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Hippocrates Prize, the Gregory O'Donoghue Prize, and prizes from Narrative Magazine. Her poetry and criticism appear in Poetry, Tin House, Kenyon Review, The TLS, and elsewhere. She is a member of the English faculty and oversees the Christine Schutt Creative Writing Program at the Nightingale-Bamford school in New York City.