Shona Simpson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and emigrated to the U.S. when she was seven.  After finishing her Ph.D. in English at Duke University as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, she taught at Eastern Michigan University and then Wake Forest University.  She eventually left academics to be at home more with her three young daughters and to write full time.  Her poem “Twinning” was adapted by Sidelong Dance Company into a spoken-word and dance piece.  She also collaborated with the composer Lawrence Dillon on a setting of her sonnet, “Still Point,” which in 2010 received its New York City premiere, sung by the Metropolitan Opera’s Theodora Hanslowe.  She co-wrote the children’s play Peril on the Red Planet for the Open Dream Ensemble, and she is currently working on her first novel.

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