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After co-curating ODC Theater’s 2023/24 season, she was appointed as Resident Curator for their 2024/25 season. Maurya is currently a UC Berkeley ARC (Arts Research Center) Poetry & the Senses Fellow.
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Recent honors include winning Rhino Poetry's 2024 Editor's Prize, second place in Palette Poetry's 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize, and first place in the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Other recent honors include winning Rhino Poetry's 2024 Editor's Prize, second place in Palette Poetry's 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize, and first place in the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest.
She is author of the chapbooks MUTTOLOGY and tommy noun (winner of the 2022 C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award).
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Maurya Kerr
Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based writer, educator, and artist. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MASS MoCA, Monson Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Maurya Kerr
Maurya Kerr(she/her) is a bay area-based artist and the artistic director of tinypistol.
Her work was recently chosen by Jericho Brown as runner-up in Southern Humanities Review’s 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, and her chapbook “tommy noun.” was the Honourable Mention winner of Vallum Magazine’s 2021 Chapbook Award and a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. Much of her artistic work, across disciplines, is focused on Black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to wonderment.
She is author of the chapbooks MUTTOLOGY and tommy noun. (winner of the 2022 C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award).
Her poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and appears in multiple journals, including Southern Humanities Review, Poet Lore, Magma Poetry, and an anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University.
Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based choreographer, poet, performer, educator, filmmaker, and the artistic director of tinypistol. Maurya’s poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Blue River Review, River Heron Review, Inverted Syntax, Oyster River Pages, Chestnut Review (1st prize winner), Harbor Review, and “The Future of Black: A Black Comics and Afrofuturism Anthology” (Fall 2021).
Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, Monson Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she was recently named a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
She was born in Minnesota and grew up in Seattle.
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Maurya Kerr is a Bay Area-based writer and artist.
Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian.
Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. Maurya’s sophomore film, Saint Leroi, was described in the Village Voice as “a surreal meditation on Black history, violence, and American decay and a powerful indictment of racism.” Maurya is a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and her poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart prizes and appears in multiple journals.
Maurya was co-curator, alongside Leyya Mona Tawil, of ODC Theater’s 2023/24 season, and Resident Curator for 2024/25.