David Simmons is the author of the fantastically bizarre Ghosts of Baltimore duology, where the supernatural and strange grapple with the ever present past of East and West Baltimore. His work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Washington Post, Brooklyn Vol. 1, Another Chicago Magazine, Hobart, and elsewhere. He is a regular contributor to Books to Prisoners, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and three daughters.