Maiah A Merino, a first and second-generation Mexican-American/Chicana Poet, mixed-genre writer, teaching artist. and therapist, has poems in A New Season: Poems from a World in Flux Anthology; In Xóxitl, in cuícatl: Flor y Canto, Antología de poesía; I Sing the Salmon Home: Poems from Washington State; and Windblown I, and is a regular contributor and past co-editor of The Yellow Medicine Review Journal. A 2025 “Garden Poet,” a 2021 Writing the Land Poet, and a recipient of the 2021 Artist Trust GAP award, Maiah utilizes her training as a narrative therapist and writer in support of others reclaiming their own stories. She currently teaches Poetry through Path with Art and her private practice. She is a single mom who lives with 3 cats and is often hunted, as prey, daily.

2026 Writers Program