Maya Jewell Zeller grew up in rural Washington and Oregon. She taught high school English and coached cross-country for three years, and is currently an MFA candidate at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, where she serves as a poetry editor for Willow Springs and as acquisitions editor for EWU Press. Her poems have appeared in Tidepools, Pontoon, and Raven Chronicles, and are forthcoming in Regarding Arts & Letters.