Ann Veronica SimonAnn Veronica Simon (1968-2003) spent most of her childhood in three American university towns: Berkeley, CA; Durham, NC, where she attended Carolina Friends School; and Ann Arbor, MI, where she graduated from Greenhills High School. She earned her BAin English from Brown University where she was a member of the literary fraternity Delta Psi, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her MFA from Louisiana State University, where she also served as the first coordinator for the Women and Gender Studies Program. She returned to Berkeley in 1993, where she spent the last ten years of her life working on her PhD in Rhetoric and contributing to the Bay Area's vibrant literary scene, supporting herself with teaching, freelance writing projects, and community work. Read More Read Less