Hello, I'm Maria. 

Currently writing up a creative non-fiction project on desire, anticipation, inner and outer time, and marginalised lives. Partial funding from the Royal Literary Fund. 

& I’m working towards what is likely a body of poems on household maintenance, revelation on this ordinary earth - the soul in paraphrase […] heaven in ordinary -intergenerational silence/institutional death, construction/farming and what other people have called the working class butch experience.... :) 

I am the director of the Invented Futures research platform looking at the ways the "the future" is formed, experienced, anticipated and re-steered centred around emerging technology, which has collaborated with Bristol Digital Futures Institute, UCL, The Yard Theatre, the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies and the Centre for Gender and Technology at Cambridge University, based at Spike Island.

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I was awarded the Goethe Institut NYC Curatorial Research Fellowship 2023-2024. This allows me to work on creating a programme focused on the future city, unruly art, working class cultural production, and financialization called Kicking the back door in.

I am also the producer of the Disordered Minds, Disobedient Literature public engagement series focusing on liminal mental states and society's assumptions about the threshold between madness and rationality, as well as the conscious and the unconscious, order and disorder, currently in collaboration with the Plasticity Lab at Cambridge, and MIND Foundation Berlin.

I am a writer who has appeared in Modern Queer Poets by Pilot Press, the Verve Poetry Press edited by Andrew McMillan, and commissioned by Liverpool Museums & C/O Berlin. I was shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize & the Bridport Prize. I was commissioned by ACUD Theater Berlin to write and devise a solo performance.

I have appeared in discussions at the York Festival of Ideas, Bristol Technology Festival and Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics. I was commissioned to devise a public lecture series titled Persistent Difficulty: Language, Possibility & Freedom focused on the relationship between philosophy, aesthetics and politics by Berlin University of Arts. I am a Course Leader at the Bishopsgate Institute London.

As an editor I have worked on non-fiction projects with University of Wales Press; non-fiction and fiction with Profile Books/Serpent's Tail; and I've worked in translation with Albino Verlag and Leopard förlag.​