Bio

Maurya Kerr is a Bay Area-based writer and artist. Her poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and appears in multiple journals, including Southern Humanities Review, Poet Lore, Magma Poetry, and an anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Recent honors include winning Rhino Poetry's 2024 Editor's Prize, second place in Palette Poetry's 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize, and first place in the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. She is author of the chapbooks MUTTOLOGY and tommy noun (winner of the 2022 C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award). Her work has been supported by fellowships from MASS MoCA, Monson Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.