Maria Hardin is a Swedish-American artist and bilingual poet based in Stockholm. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from HDK-Valand (2023).
Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether (Action Books) is her debut poetry collection.
Maria is also the author of the chapbooks Into Longing Vast Rose (If a Leaf Falls Press), Andakt (AFV Press), Weep Hole (Sad Press), Sick Sonnets (Radioactive Cloud), Sprawl Coquette (Creative Writing Deparment), Tragedienne (Antiphony) and Sick Story (SPAM Press). Her writing has appeared in American Chordata, Burning House Press, Denver Quarterly, Fanzine, Gutter, Ligeia, Odiseo Magazine, Ordkonst, Populär Poesi, SLFFCK, Spam Zine, Spectra Poetry, Tidskriften Provins, Wigleaf, Vakxikon’s Greek Anthology of Young Swedish Writers, and elsewhere.
From 2016-2022 Maria published under the pen name Mai Ivfjäll.