About Maya
Maya Rock is an editor and writer. She graduated from Princeton University in 2002 and has worked in publishing ever since (save for a happy, extended three-month jaunt to Paris). She began literary agenting at Writers House in 2005; there she edited and sold nonfiction, pop culture, memoir, and young adult fiction projects by Bethany Griffin, Rae Mariz, Heather Wagner, and Alison Weaver. As an agent, she loved the thrill of finding new voices and helping nurture talent. On the side she developed her own talent by taking creative writing classes. In 2010, she left Writers House to pursue a full-time freelance writing and editing career, a decision that’s given her the freedom to follow her many interests–ranging from asking semisnooping questions in the name of journalism to poring over the Chicago Manual of Style in search of grammatical perfection. She is the author of two YA novels, forthcoming from Penguin Putnam in 2013.
