Maya Tihtiyas Attean (b. 1994) is a Wabanaki artist, living and working in Portland, Maine. She grew up on Alnabe Menahan, the Penobscot Nation Reservation. Her work has evolved to use photography as a way of creating art that reflects her ancestry, resiliency, and culture. Her experience growing up on a reservation then migrating to living in a city has given her a unique perspective of two worlds that merge together through marrying techniques of multiple cultures within her work. She earned her BFA with honors in Photography in May of 2023 from Maine College of Art & Design. She is currently one of  the 2024 BIPOC artist studio awardees at SPACE gallery in Portland, Maine.