Simone Hollander is a writer from Monterey Bay, California. Her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington was completed on independent study from Dublin, Ireland. She has won prizes for her short fiction and creative non-fiction - most recently shortlisted for the Australian Book Review’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize - and has served as a delegate on a writers' cultural exchange to China. Her work can be found in the Australian Book Review, PageBoy Magazine, The Weeklings, The Seattle Review, The Dublin Quarterly and other literary niches. Simone has worked in public, private, and university libraries in circulation, cataloging, book repair, and book arts special collections. She lives with her family, animals, the mountains, in Longmont, Colorado.  She is writing a novel.