Chaotic, Flawed, Broken, and overall Wonkadory.
Chaotic, Flawed, Broken, and overall Wonkadory.
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You know the old rhetorics, write what you know or don't know. I was taught to write about authentic perspectives outside my world of misogynoir.
Maya Anderson
Maya Anderson
They published a book, C.L.A.W.S. the prequel, at 13 and have since improved their craft. They have participated in organizations like AAPF’s 2021 Young Scholars Program: Art, Activism, and Advocacy!, and Black Writers Collective, which taught them how to write chaotically using intersectionality. They collaborated with a group, We Too Art!, and researched how art in predominantly black schools is taught and how black femme artists identify their craft. They collaborated with Tamara D. Anderson in a multimodal project, “The Erasure of Black Women”, an article in Beautiful Experiments! Vol. 3, Issue 1.
Most of their works comprise writing and art, and multimedia pieces mix them into hybridity. They also run a business called Portraits by Maya, which commissions portraits. They say their “inspirations lie in the knowledge deserts, areas of BIPOC femme experience they wished to know about. It also lies in their racing mind.”
Their region is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“My world did not shrink because I was a Black female writer. It just got bigger.” (Interview with The New York Times, 1987)
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