The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
(Simon and Schuster, 2012)

Enid Shomer's debut novel, in which Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, both travelling in Egypt in 1849, form a deep friendship, marked by intelligence, humor, and a ravishing tenderness, that alters their destinies in the early days of the European exploration of the Nile.

—from Lippincott Massie McQuilkin

Selected Works

Novel
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
To be published in 2012 by Simon and Schuster both in the U.S. and in the U.K.
Short Fiction
Tourist Season
"Beautifully made, surprising and inevitable, wonderfully inventive and deeply true"
—Pam Houston
Imaginary Men
"Remarkable insights into tradition and family, love and sex... This is a splendid fictional debut."
—Robert Olen Butler
Poetry; Biography
STARS AT NOON: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
Poems that give voice to the mercurial, dazzling woman who first broke the sound barrier.
Poetry
Black Drum
A stunning collection that adroitly mixes the sacred and the profane, the classical and casual.
—Booklist
This Close to the Earth
Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight.
Stalking the Florida Panther
"In this fine first book the eternal themes of love, loss, unrequital, and forgiveness come together with the characters to form a remarkably unified whole."
—Maxine Kumin