Simone Person is a Black queer femme born and raised in the Midwest. They are a two-time Pink Door Writing Retreat fellow and the managing editor of just femme & dandy, as well as the communications leader and a company member at Queer Cat Productions. Their debut prose chapbook, Dislocate, won Honeysuckle Press’ 2017 Chapbook Contest, and their debut poetry chapbook, Smoke Girl, won Diode Editions’ 2018 Chapbook Contest.