About
Maya Ribault, a French-American poet, hails from the north coast of Brittany, France, and lives in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has also found support for her poetry through Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, New York State Summer Writers Institute, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, a St. Albans writer-in-residence fellowship, and grants from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
Her poems, including a translation, have appeared in Agni, Bloodroot, Cloudbank, North American American Review, Pratik, Speak, The New Yorker, TSR Online, Does it Have Pockets?, and Poetry, and have been shortlisted for the Lascaux Prize in Poetry and the Faulkner Wisdom Competition. Her chapbook, Hôtel de la Providence, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poem “Society of Fireflies” was included in the anthology A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925–2025.
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
—J.R.R Tolkien