Raised by Ferns by Zeller, Maya Jewell
Raised by Ferns by Zeller, Maya Jewell

Raised by Ferns

Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age...
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Author: Maya Jewell Zeller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Raised by Ferns by Zeller, Maya Jewell

Raised by Ferns

$78.99 $41.06
Raised by Ferns by Zeller, Maya Jewell

Raised by Ferns

$78.99 $41.06
Author: Maya Jewell Zeller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Born in a Pacific Northwest gas station to itinerant, countercultural parents, Maya Jewell Zeller came of age in a landscape where poverty, wildness, and self-reliance intertwined. Raised by Ferns traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege. Refusing tired narratives of bootstrap triumph, Zeller instead renders rural America with intimate complexity. She writes with sharp lyricism and attention about what it means to live between worlds-material scarcity and cultural wealth, inherited distrust and institutional legitimacy. From leaking rentals to library stacks, from ferns and fire codes to scholarship and marital strife, Zeller's life resists easy packaging yet finds form in layered essays that explore the complicated pursuit of belonging. Raised by Ferns offers a vital, compelling new take on the forces that shape identity and the choices that define home. It is a story of survival, but more importantly, of questioning for what-and who-it is worth surviving for.



Author: Maya Jewell Zeller
Publisher: Porphyry Press
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781736755877


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/25/2026

About the Author
Zeller, Maya Jewell: - Maya Jewell Zeller's work has appeared in The Rumpus, Brevity, and the New York Times-lauded anthology This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. Her recent books include out takes/ glove box, which Eduardo Corral selected as winner of the New American Poetry Prize; and the nonfiction title, The Wonder of Mushrooms. Maya teaches poetry and nature writing for Western Colorado University's low-residency MFA program, and writing across genres for Central Washington University's Professional and Creative Writing Program. She lives with her two teens, two tuxedo cats, and ever-expanding library of books in Spokane and Ellensburg.
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