Sydney Mayes

Sydney Mayes’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poets.org, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. Her prose is included in the anthology Between Our Legs: Silence Breaking Stories on Gynecological Health (University of Iowa Press, 2026). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award and the inaugural ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year Award, Mayes lives in Denver, Colorado. (updated 10/26)