Maurya Simon’s volumes of poetry include The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, recipient of the 2019 Gold Medal in Poetry from the Benjamin Franklin Independent Booksellers. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Farsi. Her recent poems have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, and American Literary Review. An Emerita Professor at the University of California, Riverside, Simon lives in the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains.