Her accolades include being a Finalist for The Black List/WIF Feature Lab, a Semi-Finalist for Austin Film Festival, a Semi-Finalist for the Sundance Episodic Lab, being in the top 3% of script for the Final Draft Big Break Contest, being an endorsed writer by Coverfly, an Official Selection at the Oscar-Qualifying® HollyShorts Film Festival, being in the top 4% of scripts for WeScreenplay, being a Semi-Finalist in ISA's Launch Pad Pilot Competition, being an Official Selection at HBO's Catalyst Film Festival (for both writing and directing), winning "Best TV Pilot" at the Queen Palm International Film Awards, being a Finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, a Finalist at the Oaxaca FilmFest Global Script Challenge, and being a Semi-Finalist for Stage 32.

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 Fourth Wall Management.