Maggie Nye is a writer and editor hailing from Maryland. She is currently a Ph.D. student at FSU in Tallahassee, where she serves as nonfiction editor for Southeast Review. Her work has been generously supported by Tin House, the Tent: Creative Writing, and the St. Albans School Writer-in-Residence program. Her first novel, The Curators (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone, 2024), features Leo Frank, a golem, and a girl gang in 1915 Atlanta.
While are MacDowell, Nye worked toward completing a first draft of her second novel, tentatively titled Blinder. The book is a radical feminist adaptation of the Medusa myth inspired by popular protest movements.