Andrea Simon"I experience most of the world around me as a visual author and try to capture the physical atmosphere of place, as well as the motivation of characters. Every story has the potential of being unique and universal; and it is my job to balance the two."
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Andrea Simon is the author of three well-reviewed, award-winning books: Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest, a memoir/history, republished in paperback, and making the top of the list for the 2021 Book Authority's Best Holocaust Biography Books of All Time; Esfir Is Alive, a historical novel, a 2016 INDIES Book of the Award Finalist and 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards winner; and Floating in the Neversink, a novel-in-stories about growing up in the Catskills and Brooklyn in the 1950s, which won the prestigious 2020 New York Indie Author Project. She is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the winner of 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, and she has taught various creative writing courses to adults. Andrea is also an accomplished photographer. The mother of an adult daughter, Andrea lives in New York City with her husband.
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