Maia Silber

Biography

Maia Silberis a senior at Harvard, where she concentrates in history and literature. She has won many leading prizes for her creative writing as well as for her scholarship in English literature and American history. She is the chair of the magazine of theHarvard Crimson, a writing tutor, and an investigative reporter who wrote more than a dozen stories on drug addiction for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has also written for the New York Times, Public Books, The Aperture Foundation, and Harvard Magazine. Her work has helped urge public officials to make anti-overdose drugs more widely available. She was also a research intern for Poetry in America.