TypeError: str argument expected with fresh install on Python 3.10.1

On Python 3.10.1, a fresh pip install us yields this TypeError:

Python 3.10.1 (main, Dec 22 2021, 05:19:12) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import us
>>> us.states.lookup('maryland')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/max/.pyenv/versions/3.10.1/lib/python3.10/site-packages/us/states.py", line 86, in lookup
    val = jellyfish.metaphone(val)
TypeError: str argument expected

This is the output of pip freeze:

$ pip freeze
jellyfish==0.6.1
us==2.0.2

Is this a known issue?

[InnovativeInventor]

Huh, so I manually uninstalled jellyfish (since 0.6.1 looks old) and force-installed a more recent issue, which seemed to fix the issue. However, it looks like jellyfish is currently pinned to 0.6.1 for the latest release on PyPI because pip threw me this warning:

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
us 2.0.2 requires jellyfish==0.6.1, but you have jellyfish 0.9.0 which is incompatible.

Perhaps it is worth bumping jellyfish to a more recent version?

[InnovativeInventor]

@jcarbaugh is this project actively maintained? I’d be willing to help maintain this package, if that is welcome.