Maurya Simon has published ten acclaimed volumes of poetry. Her recent book, The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems, 1980-2016 (2018), was awarded the 2019 Gold Medal from the Benjamin Franklin Independent Booksellers Awards. Simon’s poems have appeared in scores of poetry anthologies, and she’s published her writing in distinguished literary magazines throughout the U.S., including in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, and The Southern Review. Her numerous awards include an Indo/American Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (Bangalore, South India), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She’s served as a visiting writer at the American Academy in Rome, the Baltic Centre for Writers & Translators (Sweden), Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), and as a MacDowell Fellow. Simon’s given poetry readings throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Simon’s taught college-level literature and creative writing for nearly 30 years. Currently she’s a professor of the graduate division and professor emerita in creative writing at U.C. Riverside. She lives with her husband in the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Maurya Simon
Studios
Heyward
Maurya Simon worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…