Simone Martel

Simone Martel is the author of a novel, A Cat Came Back, a memoir, The Expectant Gardener, and a story collection, Exile’s Garden.

Her short nonfiction has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Hip Mama, Horticulture, Carbon Culture, Antigonish Review and Stonecrop. She's published stories in journals including The Main Street Rag, the Irish magazine, Crannog, Ocotillo Review, The Tishman Review, and the UK’s Neon Magazine.

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

After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, Simone Martel operated an organic tomato farm near Stockton, California. She’s working on a new novel based on that experience.