Simon Jimenez

1989–

Simon Jimenez is an American writer of speculative fiction, born in 1989, who grew up in Canada and the Philippines. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College and lives in Philadelphia. His debut novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), a space opera spanning a thousand years in the lives of a ship's captain and a mysterious boy, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His second novel, The Spear Cuts Through Water (2022), is a fantasy in which a captive god is helped to escape the despots who hold him.

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