Maia Carlson is a Canadian transplant living in Kansas since 1997, whose Bachelors degree in biology somehow led to a Masters in English in 2018. Her interest in poetry is recent, although she's now published in Rogue Agent, Touchstone, the Burmingham Poetry Review, and a few others. As an asexual-aromantic poet, she enjoys exploring atypical forms of connection in her poetry, all while interweaving her past studies in biology. She now teaches persuasive and technical writing to college students at Kansas State University as a term instructor.