Maurya Simon’s tenth volume of poems, The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, was awarded the 2019 Gold Medal in Poetry from the Independent Booksellers Association. Other awards include: a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Bangalore, South India), an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial and Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She’s been a Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome, the Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators (Sweden), Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), and at the MacDowell Colony. Simon’s poems have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, Greek, and Farsi. She currently serves as a Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside and resides in the Angeles National Forest in southern California.
