Maya Millett

Before joining Dial in 2021, Maya spent several years as an independent nonfiction editor and audio producer, collaborating with authors including Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl, cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, and New York Times bestselling essayist Hanif Abdurraqib. Maya also worked as an executive book editor at StoryCorps, editing the organization’s anthologies published by the Penguin Press. She was also the executive producer of StoryCorps Animation, producing animated short films for PBS based on StoryCorps’s NPR broadcasts, several of which earned Peabody and DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and two News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations. Alongside her editorial work, Maya is also the founder of Race Women, a historical justice archive project that honors pioneering Black feminists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.