Job title:
2023/24 ARC Fellow - Indigenous Poetics Lab
Bio/CV:
Maura Adela Cruz (she/her) is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley pursuing a degree in English with a minor in Creative Writing. She was raised in California’s Central Valley to an Indigenous farmworker community and is of Zapotec and Mixtec descent. Maura’s poetry focuses on Zapotec language revitalization while also examining the circumstances imposed by settler-colonial nation-states like the U.S. and Mexico. Her poetic work seeks to document and preserve the cultural histories and worldviews embedded within her Indigenous Zapotec language.
Research interests:
Maura’s research is focused on Zapotec Language Revitalization and the documentation of Indigenous farmworker narratives.