Simona is the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s dig­i­tal con­tent and mar­ket­ing man­ag­er. She grad­u­at­ed from Sarah Lawrence Col­lege with a con­cen­tra­tion in Eng­lish and His­to­ry and stud­ied abroad in India and Eng­land. Pri­or to the JBC she worked at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty Press. Her writ­ing has been fea­tured in Lilith, The Nor­mal School, Barn­storm, Dig­ging through the Fat, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She is an MFA can­di­date in fic­tion at The New School.