Veronica Golos is the author of GIRL, awarded the international Naji Naaman Honor Prize for Poetry, (Beirut, Lebanon); Rootwork; Vocabulary of Silence winner of the New Mexico Book Award, poems from which are translated into Arabic, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, adapted for stage and performed at Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA. She is the former editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. She teaches privately as well as for Gemini Ink, Hugo House, and SOMOS. She lives in Taos, New Mexico with her husband, David Pérez.