Maria Nazos is the author of the full-length collection of poems A Hymn That Meanders (Wising Up Press 2011). Her work has received awards from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Ohio Review, The Southern Humanities Review, The New York Quarterly, Poet Lore, The Sycamore Review, and elsewhere. She is a Chancellor’s fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s English PhD program.