Maya C. Popa is a Romanian American poet who holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, with earlier degrees from Barnard College, New York University, and Oxford. Her debut, American Faith (Sarabande Books, 2019), was a runner-up for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and won the North American Book Prize in 2020. Wound Is the Origin of Wonder (W. W. Norton, 2022) was named one of the Guardian's best books of poetry, and If You Love That Lady followed from Norton in 2026. She is poetry reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and founded the Conscious Writers Collective.
