Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Prose writer Maya Binyam
Join us in welcoming writer Maya Binyam for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writer’s Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.
Binyam is the author of Hangman, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was also a 2024 National Book Foundation “5-under-35 honoree and the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize.
Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu — we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.
More About Maya Binyam
Maya Binyam is the author of Hangman, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She was a 2024 National Book Foundation “5-under-35” honoree, and is the recipient of the 2025 Bard Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.
She previously taught in the New School’s Creative Writing and Critical Journalism Program, and in the literature department of Claremont McKenna College. She was a Senior Editor of the New Inquiry and Triple Canopy, and currently serves as an advisory editor of the Paris Review. Her work has been supported by Blue Mountain Center, Marble House Project, and Headlands Center for the Arts, where she received the McLaughlin Children’s Trust Award. She lives in Los Angeles.
SUPPORT
The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.