Emerging Writers Reading: Maya C. Popa
The Emerging Writers Reading Series features four MFA students (the "emerging writers") from a mix of genres reading alongside a headlining author. This reading will feature headliner Maya C. Popa with graduate student readers Bea Bacon, Nina Ferraz, Devi Sastry, and Alan Yenming Fang, hosted by Christine Marella. Please scroll down for more info about the headliner.
Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here.
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COVID-19 Protocol
Masks are optional. All attendees must be in compliance with NYU’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements (fully vaccinated and boosted, once eligible and by NYU’s deadline). Visitors (i.e. anyone who is not a current NYU student or employee) should be prepared to present proof of compliance and a government-issued ID if asked to do so. NYU students and employees should be prepared to show a Violet Go pass and an NYU ID.
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The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House is wheelchair accessible with at least two weeks advance notice; for this or any other accommodations, please call the Creative Writing Program at 212.998.8816 or email creative.writing@nyu.edu.
Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American poet and author of Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022), and American Faith (Sarabande, 2019), which was a recipient of the North American Book Prize and a runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong. She is also the author of the chapbooks, You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave; The Bees Have Been Canceled, which was a PBS Summer Choice; and Dear Life (Smith|Doorstop 2022). She received her MFA in poetry from the NYU Creative Writing Program. Photo credit: Bill Wadman