If you would like to teach my work and/or have me visit as an editor or instructor, I am available globally for VIRTUAL visits–readings, craft talks, classroom Q & As, and generative workshops; and locally (PNW-based) / nationally (US plus Canada) for in-person visits. I am currently booking for Raised by Ferns (March 26) and beyond.
UPCOMING EVENTS & APPEARANCES, 2026-27
February 2026
2/6, 10amPST/1-2EST: ASLE Spotlight-Embodied Approaches: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Embodied Humanities, Zoom (register here)
Maya Jewell Zeller joins Madison Jones, Rasheena Fountain, & Radhika Subramaniam for a special panel on Embodied Approaches, hosted by ASLE Moderators Fernando Varela & Kat Caribeaux
2/11, 6pmPST: “90s Vibes”, 5 authors, Zoom (register here)
Maya Jewell Zeller, Chelsea Sutton, Lauren Westerfield, Stephanie Austin, and Kristine Langley Mahler will give a rad-AF nostalgia event full of 90s references to celebrate and highlight their shared love of– and writing on theme of– our favorite (uh, who cares, whatever) decade. Each author will read briefly from her/their new book, and we will take audience questions.
2/20, 11:30 am: WWU, Bellingham
Class visit to Kelly Magee’s Creative Nonfiction course, Western Washington University. Not open to public, but if you’re in town, buy me a drink and let’s take a walk?
March 2026
3/4-3/8: AWP Conference, Baltimore
Book signings throughout the conference; offsite at Hotel Monaco on Friday, 3/6, 7-9pm, with Trio House Press, Porphyry Press, and Eastover Press
3/12, 6:30pm: Raised by Ferns Launch Party, West Central Abbey, Spokane
A PARTY! Please join us for music from Zoey Zeller & MSHS String Quartet, pie from Miz Kate Lebo, a chorus of local and regional voices including Laura Read, Sharma Shields, Kate Lebo, Kat Smith, Leyna Krow, Liz Rognes, Kate Reed, Sam Ligon, Katie Wisenor, Katie Scott, and Ellie Kozlowski– and I’ll read from Raised by Ferns
3/16: In Conversation w/Debra Magpie Earling, Missoula
3/17: In Conversation w/ Jamie Ford, Great Falls Public Library, books by Cassiopeia
3/18: Reading with Henrietta Goodman, This House of Books, Billings
3/19: Reading with Henrietta Goodman, Elk River Books, Livingston
3/20: Reading with Henrietta Goodman, The Clark Chateau, Butte
April 2026
4/8: Reading and Conversation with Dawn Pichón Barron, Wenatchee Valley Community College
4/9: Reading and Conversation, Winthrop Public Library
4/17 & 4/18: GetLit Festival, Spokane
4/23: Whitman University Visiting Writers Series, Walla Walla
May 2026
5/6: In Conversation w/ Dawn Pichón Barron, Olympia
5/7: Evergreen College, Olympia
June 2026
6/25-6/27: Chuckanut Writers Conference, Bellingham
SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES
Here is a reading from EVERGREEN: Grim Tales & Verses From the Gloomy Northwest, with co-editor Sharma Shields, and authors Beth Piatote, Joe Wilkins, and Alexander Ortega, as part of the Ars Poetica Series at Eastern Oregon University’s MFA, January 2022:
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Here is a reading from November 2020, for the Bad Mouth Reading Series:
2021 Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Reading with Jenny Boully & Jourdan Imani Keith, Wednesday, July 21, 2021:
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2021 GetLit Festival, moderating two panels:
Difficult Fruits, featuring Kate Lebo, CMarie Furhman, & Kathryn Nuernberger:
& Creativity in the Climate Crisis, featuring Robin Wall Kimmerer, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Johanna Stoberock:
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Reading Alicia Ostriker’s “The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz” for the Poem for You Series:
CONTACT INFO:
To reach Maya, email her at mayajewellzeller (at) gmail (dot) com.
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