Maurya Simon is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Enchanted Room; Speaking in Tongues, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Ghost Orchid, nominated for a 2004 National Book Award in Poetry; and The Raindrop’s Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula (2010). She teaches in the creative writing department at the University of California at Riverside and lives in the Angeles National Forest of the San Gabriel Mountains.