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MAEVE HOLLER is an editor, writer, poet, and educator. In 2020, she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Miami, where, as a Michener Fellow, she taught creative writing and English composition courses. In 2017, she received her BA in English and Gender & Sexuality Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans. 

Maeve’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Boiler Journal, Leveler, Scalawag, The Cardiff Review, Wildness, Mantra Review, Lotus-Eater Magazine, and elsewhere. Her full-length debut, HOW TO LEAVE YOUR FAMILY, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024, and was awarded GASHER Journal's First Book Scholarship in 2019. Maeve is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for her poem, "SELF PORTRAIT AS BLACK HOLE," and was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize by poet and contributing editor, Holly Iglesias. 

For the past 10 years, Maeve has served in editorial, communications, copywriting, and marketing roles for a variety of organizations. Maeve currently works as a Communications Manager for World Coffee Research and lives in New Orleans, LA.