Simone Martel is the author of a novel, A Cat Came Back, a story collection, Exile's Garden, and a memoir, The Expectant Gardener. Her shorter nonfiction has appeared in Hip Mama, Horticulture, Antigonish and is forthcoming in Sycamore Review. She’s published stories in many journals including Fantastique Unfettered (Pushcart nominated), the Irish magazine, Crannog, the UK's Neon magazine, the Tishman Review (Pushcart nominated) and Arts & Letters (forthcoming). She had two pieces, a story and a memoir, in last winter's Ocotillo Review.

You can read--and comment on!--her stories online at Fresh.Ink and the new French-English quarterly Short Circuit.

After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, Simone operated an organic tomato farm near Stockton. She’s working on a new novel based on that experience. Simone lives with her family in Berkeley where she shares an urban garden with butterflies, dragonflies and the occasional deer.