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MAZA is a non-binary, multi-genre writer and artist.

In 2020, they were featured in the documentary film The Art of Protest. In 2021, one of Maza’s needle-felted originals played a role in an award-winning stop-motion short, Everybody Goes to the Hospital. The online literary magazine Writing Disorder published their brief essay, “Chicken Babies,” in 2023. They currently reside on the ancestral lands of the Peoria, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), and Myaamia peoples in western Chicagoland.

Maza often finds inspiration in nature, science, queerness, and the bittersweet. You’ll find them crafting maps of Middle Earth or felting kawaii creatures when they’re not watching reruns of Star Trek: Voyager.

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