Maurya simon biography of donald

American poet, essayist, and visual artist

Maurya Simon (born December 7, 1950) is an American poet, essayist, and visual artist.^[1] She is the author of ten collections of poetry.

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Her most recent volume of poetry is The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems (Red Hen Press, 2018).

Early life and education

Born in New York City, Simon is the daughter of the Los Angeles visual artist, Baila Goldenthal, and the ethnomusicologist and composer, Robert Leopold Simon.^[2] She spent her early years living in Europe with her family, and later moved to Hermosa Beach in southern California, where she lived from 1959–1968.

Simon attended the University of California, Berkeley (1968–1971), where she was a student of Robert Grenier, Angela Davis, and Richard Tillinghast. She later received a B.A. from Pitzer College (1980), where she studied with Bert Meyers. At UC Irvine, Simon studied with Charles Wright and earned an M.F.A. in English Literature and Po