Maurya Simon is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including Ghost Orchid, which was nominated in 2004 for a National Book Award. Her two new volumes, due out in 2006, are The Mapmaker's Art (Red Hen Press) and WEAVERS (Blackbird Press).

Other poems by Maurya Simon in Verse Daily:
April 8, 2004:  "Enough" "Heaven has enough windows for everyone..."
March 23, 2004:  "Transubstantiation" "First the high road, then a bend..."
June 5, 2003:  "Hieronymus and the Lion" "Legends grow slowly and askant the truth..."

About Green Mountains Review:
Poets in this issue: Elizabeth Powell, Maurya Simon, Marianne Boruch, Chard deNiord, Charles Harper Webb, Gary Soto, David Salner, Jim Daniels, Wesley McNair, Jeff Worley, Ryan Walsh, Greg Delanty, Kate Gleason, Jeanne Larsen, Hailey Leithauser, Michelle Bonczek, Sandra Meek, Ray Marsocci, Patricia Goedicke, B.J. Buckey, Timothy Liu, Tom Chandler, Allan Peterson, Laurie Blauner, Susanne Kort, Moira Linehan, Lynn Domina, Tim Ross, Oliver Rice