About Me — Marianne Simon

Forever growing, learning, evolving.

We are, none of us, just one thing, but rather glimmers and glimpses of so many things. As I put together this bio, I sifted through my life and plucked out a few of the many influences that shaped me and my work.

I was brought up in a household of artists. Surrounded by writing, music, dance, poetry, and painting. I was tossed into the theater at the age of 8 when they enrolled me at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater.

Over the years, I performed on stage, and on television, began directing plays, and ultimately started writing my own.

In a surprising detour, I discovered a passion for nature and went back to school to become a landscape architect. It was a completely different form of expression, and yet similar, as I brought my visions to life in a new way.

Throughout my new career, I still found myself writing stories, essays, and poetry. By day, digging in the soil; by night, writing tales of rocks, trees, and waters wild.

Along the way, I raised a beautiful daughter and shared a wonderful life with my husband.

In May of 2017, he went into the hospital for a simple surgery and never came home. To say I was shipwrecked would be an understatement. Three years later, my mother also passed away.