Maia Ipp

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Maia Ipp is a writer of fiction and cultural criticism. Her first novel, SUGAR TRUCK, is forthcoming from Random House. Maia was one of the editors who relaunched the historic leftist magazine Jewish Currents in 2018, where she is now a contributing editor. Since 2014, she's visited and occasionally lived in Central and Eastern Europe, including a year in Krakow on a writing fellowship from the Polish Ministry of Culture and several long stints in Berlin. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she held a De Alba fiction fellowship. She co-founded the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, which was recently featured in Artforum. She also spent six years at City Lights Books as a bookseller and editor and occasional personal assistant to Lawrence Ferlinghetti.