Maggie Nye is a PhD candidate at Florida State University, where she is hard at work on a strange, contemporary retelling of the Medusa myth. Her debut novel, The Curators, was published in 2024 by Northwestern University Press. A MacDowell fellow and Tin House scholar, her prose and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and anthologies including Seventh Wave, Passages North, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Pleiades. In addition to writing, editing, and teaching, she is an avid horror movie lover, candy eater, and roller derby player.