Renee Simms

I am a fiction writer originally from Detroit, Michigan. I'm a graduate of University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law School, and received my MFA in from Arizona State University. I also write nonfiction and poetry

Renee's work has been widely anthologized, appearing or forthcoming in All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press 2014); Forty-Four on 44: Forty-Four African-American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (Third World Press 2011); Strange Cargo: An Emerging Voices Anthology (PEN Center USA 2008); Voices from Leimert Park (Tsehai 2006); Mischief Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press 2004); and Step into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature (Wiley & Sons 2000).

In addition to the journals listed below, her writing may also be found on Salon.com and in African Voices, Inkwell, and 42 Opus.

Renee has received fellowships and recognition from Vermont Studio Center, storySouth, PEN Center, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Kimbilio: A Center for African American Fiction, Sewanee Writers Conference, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and Cave Canem.

Renee is a visiting professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. She focuses on the African American experience through the lenses of literature and law.