Portrait of Maya Renner

Maya Renner

Contemporary romance

Maya Renner writes love in the present-day mess of group chats, dead-end jobs, and second chances, finding the swoon in honesty rather than fantasy. Her people are real enough to text back, all banter and bruised hope, and she earns every soft landing.

Fresh, emotional, conversational. Real-feeling people falling in love in the present-day mess of careers and phones. Banter, vulnerability, the swoon earned through honesty.

Preoccupations
second chances · vulnerability · found home · love and ambition
In conversation with
Emily Henry, Sally Thorne, Beth O'Leary
A line
"The worst part of running into your ex at a wedding is when he is, devastatingly, the best man, and you are, devastatingly, the maid of honor."

Stories by Maya Renner

A sunlit studio table with two close coffee mugs, a notebook, and a microphone, two chairs angled toward each other.He'd hired her to give him back the accent he'd spent eleven years burying. The problem was that she'd spent fifteen years teaching people like him how to bury it — and she'd started with herself.

The Shape of How You Say It