Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American writer, academic, and editor currently based in New York. She is the author of three poetry collections: If You Love That Lady, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder - named one of The Guardian's best books of poetry - and American Faith, winner of the North American Book Prize.

In 2018, Popa became the first woman to serve as poetry editor of Publishers Weekly, the largest international literary trade publication. She has won numerous awards in poetry, including The Hippocrates Prize, The Gregory O'Donoghue Award, The Magma Poetry Prize, The Alpine Prize, and The Narrative Poetry Prize. A former Oxford University Clarendon Scholar, her criticism has received awards from The Poetry Foundation (Chicago) and appears widely, including in the TLS, Poetry, the Poetry Review, and the London Magazine.