Maya Salameh is the author of Mermaid Theory (Haymarket Books, 2026) and How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Salameh is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and the Markowitz Award for Exceptional New Writers. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, AGNI, Mizna, and the LA Times. She can be found @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com