Nice to meet you!
I’m Maria.

Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. Her debut collection of poetry, HELEN OF TROY, 1993, is forthcoming from Scribner in spring 2025. She holds a BA in writing and English from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and an MA in professional writing from Falmouth University in Cornwall, England.

Maria has worked and written for nonprofits both big and small, and from 2017-2021 managed Deep Center’s Young Author Project in Savannah, Georgia, a program embedding creative writing workshops within the Savannah–Chatham County Public School System and serving 400 young people annually.

Maria’s fiction and poetry can be found in such venues as Ploughshares, Fantasy Magazine, the Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Electric Literature’s The Commuter, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best New Poets, and has been a finalist for Best of the Net.

Maria is represented by Kelsey Day of Aragi, Inc.