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Maria Smilios has written for _Narratively_ , the _Guardian_ , _Rumpus_ , _Dame Magazine_ , and the _Jewish Daily Forward_ among others. A New York native, Maria holds Masters of Arts from Boston University in Religion & Literature where she was a Henry Luce Scholar and a Presidential Scholar and where she taught Essay & Research writing in the university's Writing Program. In 2007, she left Boston University and moved back to New York City to teach at an all-girls high school, where she created and ran an intensive summer writing programme for teens. Maria has travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.