Simki Kuznick grew up in the Bay Area before she moved to Washington, DC, where she had a long career as an editor for the US Government. Her writing focuses on what people with multicultural and multiracial heritage can bring to our understanding of what it is to be American. She edited a monthly newspaper, Poetry San Francisco, and was a founding member of Interracial Pride in Berkeley, California, while raising two daughters with her first husband who is from Eritrea. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at American University in 2010. Her poetry explores the interactions between cultures in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. She and her husband, Peter Kuznick, who co-authored "The Untold History of the United States" with Oliver Stone, live in Bethesda, Maryland, along with their numerous reptiles and amphibians.
