Malia Maxwell is a writer from Seattle, WA. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Moss, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere.

She is an MFA candidate in Poetry at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she won the Hopwood Graduate Poetry Award, and holds a BA, Honors in English Literature from Stanford University.

Drawing upon her mixed European and Kanaka Maoli ancestry, much of her work focuses on family and place.

In addition to writing, Maxwell serves as an Editorial Assistant for Poetry Northwest and a Graduate Reader for Michigan Quarterly Review.