Maya Blackwell is a poet and author from the Southwest of England. She grew up in a woodland-based New Age community and explores the themes she absorbed there--of community and nature--throughout her work. Her writing interests include permaculture, well-being, nature connection, grief, creativity, womanhood, and the ocean. She is a prolific spoken-word performer, has been published in Helicon Magazine for the University of Bristol, and is a graduate of the University of Plymouth, with a FD Honors in Creative Art Therapies Studies.