She is a proud member of the WGA and was recently staffed on Suits LA where she wrote episode ten and was able to shadow on set for multiple episodes (Hollywood Reporter calls Suits LA one of the "Top Anticipated Shows of 2025"). Austin Film Festival/MovieMaker Magazine named her as one of the "Top Screenwriters to Watch in 2025" (Previous honorees include Glen Powell, Tracy Oliver, and VJ Boyd). Her accolades include being one of eight in the 2024-25 NBCU Writers Program (Deadline article here) and WGA East's NYSAF Filmmaker Lab. She was a Finalist for both The Black List/WIF Feature and Episodic Labs, a Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, and is an endorsed writer by Coverfly. As a director, her films have premiered at the Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival and HBO's Catalyst Film Festival (where she was nominated for both writing and directing). 

In New York, she was a resident artist of the Drama Desk award-winning Flea Theatre (under Jim Simpson and Sigourney Weaver). Her plays have been produced at the renowned Lynn Redgrave Theatre, the Hudson Guild Theatre, the Gene Frankel Theatre (Prod. Nylon Fusion, creative team includes Tony award-winner John Patrick Shanley), The Tank (6-time Drama Desk award-winning theatre), the PIT, the Player's Theatre, the Kraine Theatre, and the Matthew Corozine Studio Theatre among many others. Her plays and monologues have been used in scene work at NYU Tisch, Columbia, and at the Matthew Corozine Studio.
 
Her play, "Joan", is featured in 365 Women, A Playwriting Project. She is a coordinator with the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI) and is an ALAP Diversity Fellow.

Maia graduated with honors in gender studies from Rhodes College, a BA in English Lit and Creative Writing (dual concentration), a BA in Theatre, and a Minor in Film. While at Rhodes, Maia was awarded the Clifton Scholarship to study abroad at St. John's, Oxford University where she studied Shakespeare, Women in Medieval Literature, and Medieval Drama.   

She is repped by Untitled Entertainment and Jackoway Austen Tyerman (legal).