Andrea Simon is a writer and photographer who lives in New York City. For the past several years, she has devoted her efforts to fiction and literary nonfiction, including her published memoir/history, Bashert: A Granddaughter’s Holocaust Quest, now in a paperback edition; her award-winning historical novel, Esfir Is Alive; her novel-in-stories, Floating in the Neversink; and her new novel, Did You Have the Life You Wanted? She is also the editor and a contributor to an anthology called Here's the Story ... Nine Women Write Their Lives. Andrea holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York where she has taught writing.