Renee Simms’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Oxford American, Callaloo, LitHub, Southwest Review, North American Review, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She’s received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Kimbilio, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and PEN America. Her debut story collection, Meet Behind Mars, was published by Wayne State University Press in 2018.