Andrea Simon

Andrea Simon is a writer and photographer who lives in New York City. She has worked as an editor and writer on diverse projects, and was the co-owner of an editorial/production company that specialized in health-related educational materials. For the past decade, she has devoted her efforts to fiction and literary nonfiction, including her most recent work, a memoir/history, Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest. Several of Andrea’s stories and essays have also been published; and she has been the recipient of prestigious literary honors, including first place in the Ernest Hemingway First Novel Contest and Authors in the Park Short Story Writing Contest. Specializing in archival black-and-white printing, Andrea’s photography has been featured at numerous venues.

Author’s Personal Statement:

“Though my work includes fiction and nonfiction, it tends to be autobiographical in nature, both serious and humorous in tone, and literary in genre. I’m drawn to subjects that capture real and compelling personal values; and I’m interested in the nature of relationships, issues of moral courage and resiliency, and the necessity of humor in the human condition. Sometimes I feel as if I have spent the first half of my life living it, and the second half writing about it (perhaps rewriting the first half is more correct). Writing is often the most honest, difficult profession — and the most privileged.”