The Under Review - Issue 4 | Summer 2021

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Interview with Maya Washington
TERRY HORSTMAN
Maya Washington is a filmmaker (writer/director/producer),
actress, writer, poet, Creative Director, and arts educator. She
received a BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Southern
California and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline
University. Her work has garnered awards from Jerome
Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Minnesota Film and
Television, and others. Maya is dedicated to projects that have a
sense of “purpose” in the world, selecting stories that illuminate
some aspect of the human experience that is untold, rarely seen,
or might benefit from new approaches to issues of diversity and
inclusion, primarily in America.
Terry Horstman grew up in Minneapolis and is the all-time lowest
scoring basketball player in the history of Minnesota high school
hoops. His work has been published or forthcoming from
HeadFake, Flagrant Magazine, The McNeese Review, Taco Bell
Quarterly, A Wolf Among Wolves, among others. He is a graduate of
the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Hamline University and
the executive editor of the Under Review. He is currently at work
on his debut essay collection, which is shockingly about basketball. He lives and writes in Northeast
Minneapolis.
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