Maya C. Popa is a Romanian American writer, academic, and editor. She is the author of American Faith, which was the recipient of the 2020 North American Book Prize; her second collection is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2022. She is the poetry editor of Publishers Weekly and teaches at New York University and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, writing on the role of wonder in poetry.