Maria Cohut

Maria Cohut is a writer of Romanian origin who adopted Britain as her second home well over a decade ago. She is haunted by questions of identity, belonging, displacement, and what makes us human. Her writing has appeared in the Borders & Belonging anthology (Cephalopress, 2022), The Hyacinth Review, The Hellebore, and The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature, among others. Her first poetry chapbook, Spatter Pattern (back room poetry, 2023), explores the issue of gender violence by reimagining detective fiction tropes. She has two poetry books upcoming in 2025: Skin Me Alive/ Écorche-moi vivante, (bilingual English/French, La Crypte), and Multiple Exposures, (Flight of the Dragonfly).