Dana Maya is a writer and educator from what Américo Paredes called “Greater Mexico”—a space transcending geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and creative borders. Her poetry, essays, and multimedia work appear in Feminist Formations, the Volta, So to Speak Journal, Basta: 100+Latinas Against Gender Violence, Listen to Your Mother, Migrations and Home: Elements of Place, the A Line Meant Anthology, museums, memorials, and other public sites. Her research background is in Mexican-American/Chicanx Literature and culture, US immigrant literatures, and queer studies. A collaborator with community organizations and visual artists on projects for social change, she coordinates POEMA [] PINTURA, has been a Writing the Land poet since 2023, and was Artist in Residence for Dane County Arts in 2025.
Dana has collaborated with video artist Aaron Granat on two live video events for the Midwest Video Poetry Fest in 2022 and 2023. Dana also teaches Afterwords: Writing Grief, Odes as a Practice of Radical Joy, Writing the Visual (Ekphrastic Poetry), and Writing to be Free at ALL.
Dana Maya
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