Maia Armistead is originally from Hamilton, and is currently a student at Victoria University. She has been published in such places as Mayhem, Rejection Letters, and The Spinoff. She was a finalist in the 2019 Schools Poetry Award.

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 appearance:
Starling: A New Kind of Animal (LitCrawl), Saturday 5 Nov, 8.30pm, Bartley & Company Art, 2/22 Garret St.