If you would like to teach my work and/or have me visit as an editor or instructor, I am currently booking for Raised by Ferns, September 2026 and beyond. Please reach out to me via my contact form or publisher website.

UPCOMING EVENTS & APPEARANCES, 2026

June 2026

6/24, 6pm doors; 7pm reading: Garden party! reading and mingle with Margot Kahn and Maya Jewell Zeller. Entre Rios Books Headquarters, Seattle. DM for address/ info.

Chuckanut Writers Conference, Bellingham

  • Thursday, 6/25, 6:30PM: Conference Faculty Reading, Book Signing, and reception
  • Friday, 6/26, 11:15-12:15: Generative Workshop, “How to Start a Memoir by Writing Against Systems that Hold you Back”
  • Friday, 6/26, 6:30PM: Conference Faculty Reading and Book Signing
  • Saturday, 6/27, 10:15-11:15: Genre Fiction Panel with Glen Hirshberg, Sarah Hawley, Maya Jewell Zeller
  • Saturday, 6/27, 2:45-3:45: Generative Workshop, “Crossover Artists: Poets Writing Nonfiction”
July 2026
7/9, 9-10am: Witches in the Woods. Generative Writing Workshop with Sharma Shields. Riverside State Park, Spokane.
7/12-18: Port Townsend Writers Conference (Washington State)
  • Sunday, 7/12, 7:30pm: Reading with Jamie Ford, Roger Reeves, Maya Jewell Zeller. Wheeler Theater, Fort Worden. Port Townsend. Free and open to the public.
  • Monday, 7/13, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Writing Against the Rules: How to Start a Memoir by Resisting Systems that Hold you Back.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
  • Tuesday, 7/14, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Into the Tangle: The Braided Essay.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
  • Friday, 7/17, 2-3:30: Generative workshop, “Crossover Artists: Poets Writing Prose.” Fort Worden. Register with PTWC.
  • Saturday, 7/18, 2pm: Faculty Book Signing and Reception.
7/19-25: Western Colorado University MFA Residency (Faculty), Gunnison, CO.
August 2026
8/20, 6:30pm: KUOW Book Club Event, in partnership with Seattle Public Library. Seattle.
October 2026
10/1-10/2: Visiting Author with Raised by Ferns at Whitworth University, Spokane
  • 10/1, 4pm: Reading at Whitworth University
  • 10/2, 1-4pm: Class Visit
10/6-10/7: Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series, Central Washington University
10/16, 6amPSt/9amET: Write Wilmington on ZOOM; UNC Wilmington
November 2026
11/5, 6pm: Constellation Reading Series, with Chris Rose, PDX
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SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES

Here is a conversation about Raised by Ferns with Jamie Ford at the Great Falls Public Library, March 2026

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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