. National publicity efforts targeting:

+Industry journals such as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Bookforum, and ShelfAwareness

+Local newspapers and journals to the author

+National blogs and podcasts such as Salon, Slate, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed Books, Huffington Post, Barnes & Noble Review, NPR

+Publications the author has written for, been featured in, or whose work has been reviewed in

+Schools and organizations the author is associated with

. Marketing to bookstores, libraries, book clubs, and universities

. Article pitches by author to major industry publications, newspapers, and blogs

. Author and book signing at the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference

. Multi-city book tour

. Promotion online through the author's website

. E-newsletter promotion to several-thousand-plus contacts

. Promotion through social media to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Goodreads, and Amazon

Maurya Simon is the author of nine previous, acclaimed volumes of poetry. Simon's poems have appeared in over two hundred poetry anthologies, and she's published her work in scores of distinguished literary magazines across the country. She has received numerous national awards, including an Indo/American Fulbright Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two distinguished prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Simon taught college-level literature and creative writing for thirty years, and she is currently a Professor Emerita in Creative Writing, and a Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside. She lives with her husband in the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems compiles Maurya Simon's intellectual and compassionate exploration of life through nature and relationships.