Monique Susanna Simón is an award-winning writer, poet, artist, educator, and maker of things that do not always behave politely inside their assigned categories.

Her work spans fiction, essays, poetry, satire, folklore, visual art, cultural commentary, education, and performance. Her writing has appeared in literary journals, magazines, health-humanities publications, and anthologies. She was among the inaugural recipients of the Cropper Foundation’s Caribbean Writers Award, and her novel-in-progress, Perfect Wife and Mother, received a First Chapter Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Her first poetry collection, To My Wild: Poems from an Untamed Heart, was published in 2026.

Born in Antigua and raised between Antigua and St. Thomas, Simón moved to New York City at sixteen to begin college at Hunter College. Her creative and professional life has since moved through literature, higher education, curriculum and program development, cultural and language work, expressive arts, public speaking, community building, and the occasional creative detour.

She is currently focused on the relaunch of Living ME magazine & community while working toward a second poetry collection, a memoir, and several nonfiction books. Even when energy is scarce, she tends to maintain some small contact with the work—a line, a note, a sketch, an edit, an idea that may or may not survive.