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In addition to being a fiction writer, Simon Fill is an award-winning playwright. "Night Visits" won the Heideman Award, out of 1800 plays, from Actors Theatre of Louisville, where it was subsequently produced. BURNING CITIES won the BETC Generations Award. His plays are included in anthologies published by Vintage Books (TAKE TEN II and PLAYS FOR TWO, edited by Eric Lane and Nina Shengold), Oxford University Press (SERIOUS DARING, a creative writing textbook by Lisa Roney), Smith & Kraus, Proscenium Theatre Journal, and Concord Theatricals. He was the recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship. He graduated cum laude in English from Cornell University, has an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence, and studied in the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Sarah Lawrence.
He has also written under the name Tracy Sand.
His short stories include "Finding God on Bank Street" and "Sanctuary," which was published in the literary journal Beyond Centauri.
Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of THE LIBRARY BOOK and THE ORCHID THIEF, says of his novel manuscript THE MEANING OF ELI, "Intelligent, entertaining, and bittersweet, THE MEANING OF ELI is a story that manages to embrace life, death, and love all at once. It is a pas de deux that brings its two main characters to joyous life as they grapple with what it means to live fully, even when you have little time."
THE MEANING OF ELI was a finalist in adult fiction across all categories, in the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest, and is now being submitted to publishers.
Simon is at work on his next novel, SOMEDAY THIS WILL BE FUNNY.
He lives in the Bay Area with his family, and a small dog who rules their household.