Enid ShomerEnid Shomer is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (Simon & Schuster), which National Public Radio named one of the best novels of the year. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry The Atlantic, Paris Review, etc. She won the Iowa Fiction Prize for her story collection Imaginary Men, and the Florida Gold Medal in Fiction for Tourist Season: Stories. She has twice received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Longtime editor of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council. Read More Read Less