Veronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize, 2019 (Beirut, Lebanon); Rootwork, Winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award, translated into Arabic, Spanish and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She teaches poetry for Hugo House, Gemini Ink, and SOMOS. She lives in Taos, New Mexico, with her husband, David Pérez.