Maria Eliades is an award-winning podcast host and producer, writer, and strategic communications professional who lives in Washington, DC. Maria’s interests include politics, culture, art, literature, travel, and food in Turkey, Greece, and the United States.

Her bylines include work for the Ploughshares blog, The Times Literary Supplement, The Journal of Levantine Studies, The Puritan, PRI’s The World, EurasiaNet, and Time Out Istanbul. You can view a selection of her writings here.