Meijer Visiting Writers Series: Maria Zoccola

The Meijer Visiting Writers Series presents: A Reading by Maria Zoccola

Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer and educator from Memphis, Tenn. She is the author of

Helen of Troy, 1993 (Scribner), a New York Times Editors' Choice pick and an NPR and

The New Yorker best book of 2025. She holds writing degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., and Falmouth University in Cornwall, England. Zoccola has worked and written for nonprofits both big and small, and from 2017-2021 managed Deep Center's

Young Author Project in Savannah, Ga., a program embedding creative writing workshops within the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System and serving 400 young people annually. Her fiction and poetry can be found in such venues as

The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Fantasy Magazine, the Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Electric Literature's The Commuter,

and elsewhere.

This event is free and open to the public.