Maya Jewell Zeller is the author, most recently, of OUT TAKES/ GLOVE BOX (Nov. 2023), chosen by Eduardo Corral as winner of the New American Poetry Prize; as well as co-author of Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Literary, Jan. 2024). Maya is Associate Professor at Central Washington University, and Affiliate Faculty in Poetry and Nature Writing in low-residency MFA at Western Colorado University. She lives in the Inland NW with her children.
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The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online.
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