The Water Birth
by K. Maya Kanazawa
K. Maya Kanazawa is a librettist, screenwriter, and poet. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and was an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow at Princeton University. She has published essays in Comparative Literature, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, and Amaltea Journal of Myth Criticism. Her libretto for All of Us, a chamber opera by composer Hippocrates Cheng, premiered in June 2024 at the Center for Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana.