Maya Savin Miller

    Maya Savin Miller - jGirls+ Editor
    Maya Savin Miller - jGirls+ Editor

    2018-19 jGirls+ Magazine Editorial Board
    2019-20 jGirls+ Magazine Editorial Board
    2020–21 jGirls+ Magazine Editorial Board

    Howdy! I’m Maya, and I am a senior at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California and a third-year jGirls+ editor. Writing and literature have always been a huge part of my life. My prose and poetry have appeared in Cargoes, Up North Lit, Hadassah, Battering Ram Journal, Bluefire, Skipping Stones, and jGirls+ Magazine. My writing has been recognized by Princeton University, Hollins University, Columbia College, Rider College, Scholastic, Library of Congress, Skipping Stones, Blank Theatre National Young Playwrights Festival, and The Leyla Beban Foundation. I was a 2020 finalist for Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate. It is my great honor to be a recipient of a 2019 grant from the Dragon Kim Foundation and a 2020 grant from The Pollination Project enabling me to launch A Life In Tapestry, the travelling exhibition of the tapestry work of Holocaust survivor and artist Trudie Strobel. The project has been featured in such news outlets as The Star News, The Jewish Journal, The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, KCBS2, and KCAL9 News.

    In other endeavors, I am a member of my high school’s Arts Student Council. I am a World Schools debater, a 4-year Varsity soccer player, editor of my high school literary magazine, and Co-President of its Jewish Student Union. I am a nap enthusiast who loves a good farmer’s market, oat milk latte, jGirls+’ Zoom call, or hike in the mountains. If I were a yam, my name would be a palindrome.

    Works by Maya

    To Live by the Mandate of Tikkun Olam by Maya & Jody

    To Live by the Mandate of Tikkun Olam

    Maya and her mother, Jody, discuss the importance of Judaism and how it fits into a determination to make this world a better one.
    Devastation by Alex Garrow

    Trudie’s Goose

    A Holocaust story told through the eyes of a young Jewish girl in Nazi-controlled Poland.

    Maya's Photographs are Featured in

    What it is Like to Have Anxiety by Marin Gold - Photo by Maya Savin Miller

    What it is Like to Have Anxiety

    Marin crafts an emotional poem depicting the challenges of living with anxiety.
    Stargazer by Maya Rubenstein - Photo by Maya Savin Miller

    Stargazer

    “I didn’t realize I saw them as gods/’Til they fell”
    Brain on Life by Anonymous - Photo by Maya Savin Miller

    Brain on Life

    "I try to understand this confined brain / Waiting for her to untangle”
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    Black Bat Mitzvah

    “In predominantly white and Jewish spaces, I was ignored, ostracized, tokenized, discriminated against, othered.”