Award-winning poet and 2024 Princeton Holmes Poetry Prize winner Maya Marshall reads from her work along with several creative writing seniors. The C.K. Williams Reading Series showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Marshall’s books will be available to purchase and have signed.

This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.

Featured Student Readers

• Amy Liu
• Roya Reese
• George Tidmore
• Emma Tsoglin
• Avery Danae Williams
• Destine Harrison-Williams

About Maya Marshall

Maya Marshall is a poet, essayist, and editor. A recipient of the 2024 Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, she is the author of the poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love and the chapbook Secondhand. Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision, and has been awarded grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, Sewanee’s Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Emory University. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous publications, including Prose for the People (Penguin Random House, 2025), American Poetry Review, the Rumpus, and Prairie Schooner. Marshall serves as Poetry Director for Haymarket Books and as a program consultant for the Writing Freedom Fellowship, a literary fellowship for system-impacted writers. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University.