Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and a 2016 National Student Poet, America's highest honor for youth poets. She is the winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Prize, through which her debut poetry collection, How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, will be published in 2022. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, and The Brooklyn Review, among others. Maya is the author of rooh(Paper Nautilus Press, 2020).