Simone Martel is the author of a novel, A Cat Came Back, a memoir, The Expectant Gardener, and a story collection, Exile’s Garden. Simone was born in Oakland, CA. According to her family, she was teargassed on her way to nursery school, though she doesn’t remember that. After studying English at U.C. Berkeley, Simone created and operated an organic tomato farm near Stockton. She’s working on a new novel based on that experience.
We were one of the first to receive the baby doll. Our package arrived on a Saturday morning last September when Kamran and I had been living in our dream apartment in San Francisco’s Mission Bay for about a month. Just a year ago native grasses and weeds thrived in the sandy soil near an […]