Maurya Simon

Maurya Simon has taught creative writing at the University of California, Riverside for 25 years. She is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including Ghost Orchid, which was nominated in 2004 for a National Book Award in Poetry.  Her eighth volume, Cartographies, was published by Red Hen Press September of 2008.  Simon has been the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a University Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Celia B. Wagner and Lucille Medwick Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright/Indo-American Fellowship in Bangalore, South India. She has held fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, the Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators in Visby, Sweden, at Hawthornden Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, and twice at the American Academy in Rome. In addition, she served as a U.C. faculty lecturer at Lund University in southern Sweden.

Simon’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, Agni, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New England Review, and in more than forty poetry anthologies.  In addition, Simon’s poetry has been translated into French, Rumanian, Bengali, Swedish, Spanish, and Farsi.  An opera entitled “Tamar,” based on Simon’s eponymous verse libretto, premiered at the University of Rhode Island in March of 2007.

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