Maya Salameh is a poet fellow of Stanford University, the William Male Foundation, the Leonard Slade Endowment, 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 October 2022. Her poems have appeared in POETRY Magazine, The Rumpus, ANMLY, and Asian American Writer’s Workshop, among others. Maya is the author of rooh (Paper Nautilus Press 2020).