Maya Miracle Gudapati (she/they) is a biracial bisexual poet born and raised in Boise, ID. She co-coordinates the Incarcerated Writers Project through Phoebe Journal and hosts multiple reading series.
Their writing can be found or is forthcoming in West Trade Review, Peach Fuzz Magazine, Sky Island Journal, OROBORO Lit Journal, and elsewhere. Her poems were selected as the Mark Craver Poetry Award runners up 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 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, cedar waxwing photo by Ken Miracle