Maaliyah Papillion

Maaliyah Papillion is a Creole and Indigenous interdisciplinary artist from Louisiana who describes herself as an actress, singer, model, and third-generation healer. She is an enrolled member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Southwest Louisiana. She was a resident at A Studio in the Woods in 2024, where she made smoke cleansing bundles and prayer fans. Her announced poetry book is written in Ishakkoy and retells ancestral stories in modern ways.