M. Simone Boyd

M. Simone Boyd dreams of a day when her neighborhood will be free from violence, and she is working toward that day.

She is a writer, speaker and neighborhood organizer exploring what makes relationships and neighborhoods thrive or die. Whether it’s academic research shared as fiction or a workshop…she tells stories. At least once a month, people—some incarcerated—share that her novel, The Day Sonny Died, has made them hopeful.

In 2018, Simone received the Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship. She is a Nashville native, eldest of eight kids and married to a wonderful man that happens to be an only child.

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