Maria Theuma

is a Malta-based writer and researcher. She has studied English at the University of Malta and Goldsmiths, University of London, and has recently submitted a doctoral thesis on the relationship between posthuman aesthetics and beauty. Her other areas of academic and personal interest are feminist literary theory, girlhood studies, and millennial- and Gen-Z-focused content surrounding both pop and digital culture.

Her creative nonfiction, as well as her poetry, has appeared in The Rumpus and Isles of the Left, among other places. Her latest collaborative project, titled ‘Transformations and Translations’, was commissioned by and presented at Malta’s Three Palaces Festival in November 2020.