Andrea Simon

Andrea Simon is the author of the award-winning historical novel "Esfir Is Alive," the memoir "Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest," now in a paperback edition, the novel-in-stories, "Floating in the Neversink," the 2020 New York Indie Author Project winner, as well as several published stories and essays. She is also the editor and contributor of the anthology, "Here's the Story: Nine Women Write Their Lives." The recipient of numerous literary awards, she has won the Ernest Hemingway First Novel Contest, two Dortort Creative Writing Awards, the Stark Short Fiction Prize, the Short Story Society Award, and the Authors in the Park Short Story Writing Contest. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York where she has taught writing. An accomplished photographer, her work has been featured in international publications and galleries. Andrea lives in New York City.