Maia Morgan’s writing has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and published in Glamour, Creative Nonfiction, The Chattahoochee Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Rumpus, among others. She is a past winner of Glamour magazine’s “Real-Life Essay Contest” and a finalist for Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Essay Prize, The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize for Fiction, and Narrative Magazine’s Prize for Fiction.

She has worked as a playwright, teacher, and theater artist, designing programs and curricula, writing, directing, performing, and teaching in schools, arts organizations, mental health care facilities, and jails. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University-Newark and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati where she is currently a visiting assistant professor.