Maxwell Bauman is an award winning artist and author.
He is the Associate Publisher and Managing Editor of Ben Yehuda Press. https://www.benyehudapress.com/
Maxwell was the owner and Editor-In-Chief of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine. Founded in 2015, Door Is A Jar was a quarterly print and ebook publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama, artwork, and book reviews. Copies of Door Is A Jar were sold on the newsstand in Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, indie bookstores and in airports nationwide from 2022-2025. After 11 years and 40 issues, the magazine closed in 2026:
http://www.doorisajarmagazine.net
In 2021, Maxwell became Lead Editor of Aggadah Try It Books, an imprint of Madness Heart Press, that focuses on publishing speculative fiction by Jewish authors.
In 2026 Maxwell's Lego art "Emergency Golem" won third place in the inaugural Mark Podwal Prize in Visual Art, sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Foundation. The piece was exhibited at Hebrew Union College's Dr. Bernard Heller Museum.https://eliewieselfoundation.org/markpodwalprize/
He is a an associate member of the Jewish Art Salon. https://jewishartsalon.org/
WRITING
His books span genres from comedy and romance to sci-fi and horror. And he is a contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul.
EDUCATION
Maxwell graduated from Hartford with a BA in English with a focus in creative writing in 2011. He served as an editor and secretary for Aerie, University of Hartford's literary magazine from 2007 to 2011.
He was President of the Eta Upsilon Chapter of AEPi from 2009 to 2010, and on the executive board of Hartford's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society (2010-2011).
Maxwell took classes at the University of South Carolina and worked at the student newspaper, The Daily Gamecock, as a Copy Editor and became Copy Desk Chief. Here is a link to all of the articles he wrote between 2011 and 2013:https://www.dailygamecock.com/staff/maxwell-bauman
He completed his MA (2014) and MFA (2015) at Wilkes University with a focus in fiction and publishing.
Maxwell with Joyce Carole Oates and Dr. Ruth Westheimer