R.B. Simon

R.B. Simon was a queer, Black, fat, disabled poet who wrote memoir-inflected poetry about addiction, abuse, motherhood, and Wisconsin landscapes. She was Managing Editor at Harbor Editions and won the 2023 Zoyer Zyndel Poetry Prize. Her third book, the poetic memoir Bird, Bone, Blood, was finished shortly before her death in early 2025 and published by Milk & Cake Press, which gave proceeds above printing costs to her family. Her earlier books are Not Just the Fire (Cornerstone Press, 2023) and The Good Truth (Finishing Line Press, 2021).