ANGIE MAZAKIS

Poet, Essayist

Angie Mazakis was named a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow. Her first book, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, was chosen by Billy Collins as a finalist for The Miller Williams Prize, published by University of Arkansas Press, and named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Boston Globe. Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Columbia Journal, Black Warrior Review, Mizna, and Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry. Her essays have been published in The Atlantic and Gulf Coast. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.