The Spiral Pilgrimage

Maurya Simon’s eleventh volume of poems, La Sirena: A Novella in Verse, has recently been published by Cloudbank Books. Her earlier volume, The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, 1980–2016 (Red Hen Press, 2018), was awarded the 2019 Gold Medal in Poetry by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Simon’s other awards include a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Bangalore, South India), an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award and Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She currently serves as Professor Emerita and Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, and lives in the Angeles National Forest in Southern California.