photo by Ken Miracle
Maya Miracle Gudapati she/they
poet - educator - Incarcerated Writers Project Co-Coordinator
Maya Miracle Gudapati (she/they) is a biracial bisexual poet born and raised in Boise, ID. She is an MFA poetry candidate at George Mason University, where she co-coordinates the Incarcerated Writers Project through Phoebe Journal and hosts multiple reading series.
Their writing can be found or is forthcoming in Peach Fuzz Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Eunoia Review, Jeopardy Magazine, and elsewhere. Her poems were selected as the runners up for the Mark Craver Poetry Award in 2024 and 2025 by Taylor Johnson and Tonee Mae Moll respectively.
Maya lives in Fairfax County, VA, which is located on the rightful land of the Manahoac/Mahock and Piscataway peoples. Her ancestors on her mother’s side worked carnivals, a waitress at a Dungeons and Dragons bar once described her as hike-y, and she has a barbed wire thigh tattoo.
author photo by Desi Valdez