About me
Maria Pinto is a writer, teaching artist, and mycophile. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Frigg, Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, The Butter, and Dostoevsky Wannabe Cities: Boston. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies by the Mass Cultural Council, The Writers' Room of Boston, The Mastheads, The Garrett on the Green, and Vermont Studio Center. She's a fiction editor at the multimedia journal Peripheries, a contributor at the online publication Thali Global, and the Community Programs Teaching Fellow at GrubStreet. She’s currently at work on a book inspired by mushrooms.
