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Maurya Simon

Maurya Simon is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including The Enchanted Room, Days of Awe and Speaking in Tongues, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and The Golden Labyrinth.  Her fifth volume, A Brief History of Punctuation, was published in a limited edition by the fine letter-press book publisher, Sutton Hoo Press, and another letter-press collection of ekphrastic poems, WEAVERS, based on the paintings of Los Angeles artist Baila Goldenthal, was published in 2005.  Simon’s seventh volume, Ghost Orchid, was nominated for a 2004 National Book Award in Poetry, and her eighth volume, Cartographies: Uncollected Poems, 1980-2005, was published in 2008. Simon’s ninth volume, The Raindrop’s Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome & St. Paula, is due to be published in 2010. Maurya’s poems appear in over forty anthologies, and her poetry has been translated into French, Rumanian, Bengali, Swedish, Spanish, and Farsi. Maury teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and she lives in the Angeles National Forest of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California.