Hi, I'm Maya 👋

Writer, wanderer,
chronic over-thinker
— and proud of it.

I write essays about design, the art of slow living, creativity, and all the strange beautiful things that happen in between. Based somewhere between two cities and too many open browser tabs.

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122 essays written

12.4k monthly readers

5+ years writing

☕ Currently sipping

Oat flat white

Extra shot, always.

📖 Currently reading

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

The journey

A few milestones

Not a résumé — just the moments that changed something.

2019

Started Inkwell

Published my first essay on a blog nobody read. Left it up anyway.

✦ Origin story

2020

First 1,000 readers

An essay about solitude during lockdown found its people. That was the moment I understood what this was for.

✦ Community

2021

Consulting work begins

Started helping brands and founders write in a way that actually sounds human. Turns out this is a real job.

✦ Work

2022

Moved cities. Wrote about it.

Left everything familiar and wrote the most-read piece in Inkwell's history as a direct result.

✦ Change

2023

10,000 newsletter subscribers

A number that still makes me a little dizzy. Each one is a real person who chose to open my words on a Sunday morning.

✦ Growth

2024 — 26

Book proposal. Deep breath.

Writing long-form for the first time. A book about slowness, attention, and why we're all so tired. Watch this space.

✦ Next chapter

What I do

Craft & capabilities

Five years of writing professionally has sharpened a particular set of muscles. Here's where most of the energy goes.

Essay & long-form writing 95%

Brand voice & strategy 88%

Editorial design thinking 80%

Photography & visual storytelling 74%

Newsletter & community building 90%

Things I use & love

Writing

📝 Notion ✍️ iA Writer 📖 Ulysses 🖊️ Moleskine

Design & Visual

🎨 Figma 📸 Lightroom 🖼️ Procreate

Reading & Research

📚 Kindle 🔖 Readwise 🗂️ Obsidian 🌐 Pocket

Publishing

✉️ Substack 🌍 Ghost 📊 Fathom

Currently on my shelf

Books that shaped me

A rotating selection of the ones I keep coming back to. Not a definitive list — just what feels true right now.

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

✦ Creativity

Read this four times. Changed my relationship with making things each time.

How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell

✦ Philosophy

A book about attention and resistance that I wish everyone would read.

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

✦ Fiction

The most beautiful strange world I've ever been lost in. I never want to leave.

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

✦ Writing

The only writing book you need. Honest, funny, and completely unafraid of the mess.

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

✦ Fiction

A slim novel about memory and self-deception that took a week to process.

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