March 3, 2026– RAISED BY FERNS– early preorder at Porphyry or request soon from your favorite indie or wherever books are sold! 
Coming Soon (September 2025)- The Wonder of Mushrooms- illustrated by Jenny deFouw Geuder and published by AdventureKEEN– preorder here.
Recently Released (Jan. 24, 2024)- Advanced Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored textbook (with Kathryn Nuernberger) from Bloomsbury Literary
Turning two in November (2025): out takes/ glove box, winner of the 2022 New American Poetry Prize, selected by Eduardo Corral!
“The poems in Maya Jewell Zeller’s Out Takes/ Glove Box are modern myths in which a brain’s “bright jewelry” unspools across a lifetime. Loves and landscapes are rendered in frank-yet-delicate precision as an I tries to make sense of herself and of the world she finds said self in. Zeller’s I is a myth and a fish, “folded / like a letter into its envelope,” unfolding and rearranging, deconstructing and rebuilding the vexed architecture of this “city of thorns” called Earth. She’s trying to find her way back to “her sparrow homes, her song of leaves.” If you’ve ever “looked so hard / through leaves they all become / eyes,” if your eyes really have “grown leaves in their looking,” these poems will turn your brain into a field of underwater rhododendrons irrepressibly radiating “foreign, unhinged glow.”
– From Joely Fitch’s review in Fugue, “Turn to the Page / Called Free: A Conditional Essay on Maya Jewell Zeller’s OUT TAKES/ GLOVE BOX“
Turn to the page / called Free
A Conditional Essay on Maya Jewell Zeller’s Out Takes/ Glove Box
Co-edited anthology with Sharma Shields (featuring works from the PNW’s contemporary writers of glitter and gloom):
Evergreen celebrates that complexity, embracing the variety of the region’s particular landscapes, but also the intricacies of life itself, despair and wonder and the way the two are fundamentally intertwined — darkness as a source of both terror and magic.
-Emily Benson, HIGH COUNTRY NEWS
Listen to an interview with The Write Question here.
Learn more here.
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2017 Collaboration with visual artist Carrie DeBacker:
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts charts a course into magical waters, anchoring itself in the frightening politicization of a woman’s body. The chemistry of this conversation between Spokane Poet, Maya Jewell Zeller, and Seattle artist, Carrie DeBacker, includes pomegranates for human heads, bones that can walk, and a ship sprung from a person’s back, “floating farther from shore.” The speaker in these incantations, behind these urgent watercolors, muses on the philosophies of geologic time, climate change, human genomes, and existential destruction. This book sets out to discover meaning in this terrible, beautiful time — and suggests wonder is where we’ll find it: “the diagnosis is strong / for the wild & wind mills.”
-Entre Rios Books, Seattle
Listen to Maya read excerpts here.
Order here.
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First full-length poetry collection, Lost Horse Press, 2011:
To order RUST FISH, Maya’s first book–which offers an intimate coming-of-age narrative set in rural poverty–visit Lost Horse Press, Amazon, or tell your favorite bookstore to order some copies.
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Poetry chapbook– limited edition from Floating Bridge Press, 2015:
YESTERDAY, THE BEES, a chapbook navigating early motherhood, postpartum depression, and complicated family lineage during an era of extreme climate change and global distress, is available from Floating Bridge Press.
Maya Jewell Zeller 
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