About the Author

Simone Rocca was born in Ontario, Canada, in the mid-1990s. She started writing fiction in childhood and apparently never grew out of it.

Her influences range from the precise, airtight prose of Agatha Christie’s mystery novels to the existential weight of human hardship as seen in the likes of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, and FromSoftware’s Elden Ring. Film and music also deeply inform her sense of atmosphere and narrative structure.

She is drawn to work featuring strong moral undercurrents that challenge our conceptions of reality, whether external or internal.

In between writing her debut novel, The Ways We Hurt Are Many, she currently publishes poems and short stories on Vocal Media.