MAURA M.M.
EST. 1990

Maura M. Modeya is a poet, performer, and professor from Bemidji, MN. She’s the author of Only Interested in Everything, a poetry chapbook published by Meekling Press. Before heading west, she lived in Chicago where she focused on live performance, and producing oddity and storytelling shows. Their work interests include delirium, sapphic ritual, eco-dykedom, the poetics of disruption, and public visual disruption through wheat pasting, stickering, spray painting, and other DIY modes. Beyond the page, she has curated poetry wheat paste installations of her own work as well as local community poetic collaborations as an act of street publication. They hold an MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University in Boulder, CO where they currently teach.


Find her on insta @down2theponywire or at her monthly queer poetry open mics typically held at Town Hall Collaborative.