is a writer from Michigan. She covers the WNBA and other sports as a staff writer at Defector. She’s studied Angel Reese’s knack for offensive rebounding up close in Chicago; heard Sabrina Ionescu hush a Finals crowd in Minneapolis; watched Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd and the UConn Huskies cut down the nets in Tampa; and reported from the media circus at Caitlin Clark’s Indiana home debut.
Her writing about the WNBA has been anthologized in the 2025 edition of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. She’s at work on a book about the rapid cultural rise of women’s basketball and its young superstars for Dutton/Penguin Random House. She lives in Chicago.
some work:
🐐 On Diana Taurasi
🤬 On the WNBA’s online culture wars
⛹️♀️ On Caitlin Clark
🏒 On the fight for the first CBA in women’s hockey
🇨🇦 On a much-hyped Canadian quarterback
contact: maitreyi [at] defector [dot] com // represented by Laura Usselman at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency