Maya Salameh’s debut poetry collection, HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE, won the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from Arkansas University Press this October. She is also the author of the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). Her poems have been published in Poetry, The Rumpus, ANMLY, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, The Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere. She is a poet fellow of the William Male Foundation and was a 2016 National Student Poet, America’s highest honor for youth poets. (updated 6/2022)