Biography

Author of A Complete Fiction (2025). Maizes's debut novel, Other People’s Pets, won the 2021 Colorado Book Award in Fiction and was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020.

She is also the author of the short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper.

Her stories have aired on National Public Radio and have been produced by Stories on Stage. Maizes’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and have aired on NPR. Maizes lives in Niwot, Colorado.

Speaking Experience

Berthoud Literary Festival Author Talk: "Called Out! Writing in the Age of Social Media" (September 2025)

Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest, panel discussion (June 2019):

"Book Launch Behind the Scenes" "But I Thought I Would Have a Book by Now," panel presented at 2020 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest.

"Tell Me a Story: Getting a Debut Collection Published," panel presented at 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference.

"How To Debut," panel presented at 2019 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest.

Publishing History

A Complete Fiction (2025) (novel that satirizes cancel culture and social media).

Other People's Pets (2020) (novel about an animal empath).

We Love Anderson Cooper (2019) (short story collection about outsiders).

Awards

Colorado Book Award for Fiction 2021

Valedictorian, St. John's Law School.