Maaya Dev is an Indian based poetess and an economics graduate from Kerala. Poetry is her passion and she feels it is to be highly cathartic. Her wagon wheel of poetry just keeps revolving 360 degrees following the nature’s protocol and principle of indiscrimination. She is a word smith wearing multi feathered cap. Her poems have found place in several national and international anthologies and journals like Episteme, Criterion, Anthesis, Eternal, Wings, Forever, Change, The Significant Anthology, Aquillerelle Wall of Poetry Book, Kaafiyana and upcoming anthologies like Umbilical Cords, and Maginitute- The Awakening of Nepal. She is a winner of Delhi Poetry Challenge 2015 a national hunt contest by Kaafiya Poetry Festival in collaboration with Readomania, a winner at StoryMirror- Season 1 for short story (English). She is a regular contributor at many sites like Muse India, Boloji, Learning & Creativity, Cafe Dinssensus, Rate My Literature, Saliz Magazine and many more reputed poetry sites. She handles a monthly poetry column ‘Tossed Pebbles’ at B’khush, an ezine. She is also conferred with few awards during 2014-12015 ‘Faith Centred Poet( Highly Commended), Poet of the Month, Monthly and Bi Monthly Critic Awards at ICOP: ROLL of Honour at Destiny Poets UK( An International Community Of Poets). Her debut anthology ‘SHIMMERING CHIMES’ got published by AUTHORSPRES Delhi, in Sept 2015. She blogs at maayas-musing.blogsp­ot.in.