Maia Evrona is a poet and prose writer, originally from the Boston area. Her poems, as well as her translations of Yiddish poetry, have been awarded grants from the Fulbright Program and the National Endowment for the Arts, and have been widely published. In 2025, she was a UNESCO City of Literature poet-in-residence in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Yiddish is an official minority language. She was recently awarded an In Geveb/Fortunoff archive fellowship to write poetry, in English and Yiddish, inspired by the Yiddish language Holocaust testimony in Yale University's Fortunoff Archive. She also writes a great deal about chronic illness and disability. Her website is maiaevrona.com
