Veronica Golos won the 16th annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize (Story Line Press) for her book, A Bell Buried Deep. She is the author, most recently, of Vocabulary of Silence (Red Hen Press, 2011). An award-winning curator and teacher for Poets & Writers, Poet's House and 92nd St Y/Makor in New York City, Ms. Golos has had work published and anthologized nationally and internationally, and adapted for theatrical productions in New York City's Theatre Row, and at the Claremont Theological Seminary in California. Her poetry was the centerpiece of My Land is Me, a four-artist multimedia exhibit in Taos, NM that questioned the western view of the Veil.