Mayah Monet Lovell

Mayah Monet Lovell is an award winning Caribbean-American transdisciplinary artist, writer, and scientist. Raised between DC and MD, Mayah is a first-generation descendant of Caribbean servitude—with matriarchal lineage birthed in ‘Canal Zone,’ originally Rainbow City, Panamá by way of Barbados, and patriarchal lineage in Jamaica via the Cayman Islands. Grounded in self-taught and ancestral education, she has exhibited visual and performance work from her ongoing research and exhibition series Body as a Landscape, underground and traditonally across the greater Washington area, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, New England, and elsewhere, cultivating sustainable community and economic liberation among artists and creatives through events, mutual aid, and social justice initiatives.

Her performances and exhibitions have been shown at Gallery Y, 52 o St, Vox Populi Gallery, Washington Project for the Arts, The Compound, Transformer, Rhizome, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, and Poetic Research Bureau, among others. Mayah is the creator and co-founder of dykes day, a lesbian literarary hub. In 2022, she was a Wherewithal Project Grant awardee for the curated work and has taught writing workshops in art spaces. Mayah has publications nationally and internationally, in several magazines, dispatches, books, and journals, with authorship through Test Pie Press (2025), Nueoi Press (2023), Hermetic State (2023), and a forthcoming full-length poetry collection, as a finalist with Discount Guillotine (2026).

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