MEET MAYA
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From gorgeous Prince George’s County, Maryland. Brooklyn transplant. Poet & artist.
Maya Henry Lewis is a book marketer by day — poet and mixed-media artist by …well, all times. She’s an avid pop-culture enthusiast and the co-founder of the NONAC, a literary newsletter (currently on-hiatus). Maya is also a member of the Inkluded Academy, a program focused on diversifying the publishing industry. She was a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, a Tin House Workshop alum, a Keywest Literary Seminar Fellow, and a 2-time Watering Hole Fellow. She has been published in Womanly, No Dear, The Amistad, Callaloo and SoftPunk Magazine, among others. She has exhibited work with sk.Artspace and Weeksville Heritage Center & Museum. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
ART
Mind Meld (2024) | Featured at Weeksville Museum “Imagining Our Future” exhibition
Eat the Stars First: A Baptism (2024) | Featured at Weeksville Museum “Imagining Our Future” exhibition
Joyful Harvest (2024) | Featured at Weeksville Museum “Imagining Our Future” exhibition - SOLD
Starshine in Swampland (2024) | Featured at Weeksville Museum “Imagining Our Future” exhibition
Burning Future Fortunes (2024) | Featured at Weeksville Museum “Imagining Our Future” exhibition
Lost & Found II (2022)
Lost & Found II (2022)
Lost & Found (2021)
Untitled (2021)
Auntie's Babies 91' (2022) - Private Collection
Plucked and Protected I (2022) - Private Collection
Transport (2022) SOLD
Plucked and Protected II (2022) SOLD
Who all gon be there? Who's missing? (2022) SOLD
Sister. Cousin, 2021
Stitched Together, 2020 | Featured at sk.Artspace “Future is Female” exhibition | SOLD
For business purposes, 2021
Only she sees me, 2021
Can we be children a little longer, 2021 | Featured at sk.Artspace “Future is Female” exhibition | SOLD
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Soul, 2020 [PRINTS AVAILABLE]
Untitled, 2021
Thank you, 2021
I see you. Always., 2021
A Vibe2, 2020
A Vibe1, 2020
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Untitled, 2021 [PRINTS AVAILABLE]
A Timeline: Freedom, 2020
What are boarders? You are Here., 2020
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Stitched Together II, 2021 [PRINTS AVAILABLE]
Maybe It's Her Aura, 2021
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Deliberate Abstraction, 2021 [PRINTS AVAILABLE]
Fixation, 2021
POETRY
So it Goes — Callaloo Journal, Forthcoming
Flattened Over/Time — Callaloo Journal, Volume 44, Number 2, 2026
The Last Black — Snarl Journal, Issue #5, 2023
Salt Cured — The Amistad, Spring 2022 Issue
The Suburbs — Lunch Ticket, 2022
Full Picture — No Dear Journal, Issue no. 27: WARP, 2021
Not Too Long Ago — Thirty West Publishing - Broadside Print Winner, 2021
Everybody Here — Lucky Jefferson, Issue 7: Cookout, 2021
Lost Mourning, Selfish, and Mud — Lolwe, March 2021
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