Maya Odim

Maya is a poet who thinks deeply about the ways writing and movement are connected, and about the ways words move, can be moved and carry meaning. Maya received honorable mention in the 2024 Ruth Weiss Foundation Poetry Competition, has self published two chapbooks: Planets, Gourds, and Traveling Staffs (2011) & Places Where We Can imagine (2014), and been published in the Performance Response Journal, F News Magazine and the Chicago DanceMakers Forum Blog, and for multiple years has been honored to be a reader for the Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards. Maya received a Chicago Performance Lab residency summer 2025 and along with working as a Poet, is a lecturer in English at Roosevelt University & Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. If the music is right, you’ll catch Maya in the cypher (with a pen, in tennis shoes or barefoot).

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