Simmone Howell
Simmone Howell’s YA novels are highly awarded and internationally published. Her first, Notes from the Teenage Underground won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. Her most recent, Take Three Girls, a collaborative novel with Fiona Wood and Cath Crowley, was awarded the 2017 CBCA’s Book of the Year for Older Readers, and selected for the White Ravens International Youth Library Catalogue. Simmone has received grants from Creative Victoria and Creative Australia. Her creative non-fiction about adolescence and suburban dreaming has been published in The Age Spectrum, the Conversation and literary journals Island, Overland and Kill Your Darlings. She has a PhD in creative writing from La Trobe University and has taught writing at RMIT, Melbourne University, La Trobe University and the Faber Academy.