M. A. Dubbs

M. A. Dubbs is an award-winning Mexican-American and LGBT+ writer who hails from Indiana. Dubbs writes poetry, short-fiction, and visual art. Her writing has been published in literary magazines, anthologies, and zines across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, India, Austria, Australia and Nigeria. Dubbs is the author of three poetry collections: Aerodynamic Drag: Poetry and Short Fiction (2021),  An American Mujer (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and Limestone Versified: Indiana Haiku and Poetry (2023).

Her poetry has been archived in Indiana's Poetry Archive (INverse) and she served as judge for the 2022 Poetry Out Loud's state competition. Dubbs has performed in several live and virtual readings including being a featured author for both Poets Laureate of Lawrence and Brick Street Poetry of Zionsville. She also performed at the 2021 Grand Opening of Fort Ben’s Culture Campus and the 2023 Grand Opening of Indianapolis’ Fort Ben Library. In 2024 she performed at DePauw University as part of the Hidden Sun solar eclipse tour sponsored by Indiana Humanities Action Grant. Her Hidden Sun haiku was printed on a banner and hung in Greencastle Square as public art. Dubbs is active in the local writing community, holding a free poetry publishing workshop and resource share for new writers through Poets Laureate of Lawrence and attending HEPL Local Author Fair in Fishers, IN.

Dubbs earned her BA in English at Indiana University Bloomington. She was president and founder of IU’s Creative Writing Club and was an Associate Editor of poetry, non-fiction, and literary fiction for The Scribe, a literary ezine. Dubbs was also an intern for the nationally celebrated Indiana Review.

Dubbs lives with her husband, twin girls, cat, and dog and enjoys hiking, gardening, running, mushroom foraging, video games and watching 90s magical girl anime.