Maura is a writer and artist. Her writing has been published in The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, On the Seawall, Fairy Tale Review, Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Following her MFA, she taught creative writing, literature, and art writing at various universities, and led writing workshops and site-specific meditations at art institutions and museums.

Maura’s writing and art practice focuses on wildness, earth/femme-rage and identity, and building bridges among inter-diasporic networks. She also writes about art and film. She has collaborated with composers, artists, and writers on a variety of projects.

Her recent work includes two video debuts: Smoke Psychology and Victory Highway, which investigate the impacts of toxins released by burning architectures on human psychology in the American west. Leaning on her background in socially-engaged art and her training as a ritualist, Maura creates public works and performances that transform eco-grief into shared power. She has spent the past several years teaching ecopoetics and ancestral repair modalities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and serving her communities as a writer and editor.