Originally from New York’s Long Island, Simon moved to North Carolina in 1998 and became a teacher in a low-wealth school system for fifteen years. During that time, he taught middle grades Language Arts to seventh graders and elementary school subjects to fourth and fifth-grade students. He continues to live in the county in which he was an educator.
Anyone who’s driven down a country road and seen the ruins of an old house and wondered what stories it could tell is already an author of a story in The Seven Story House. This collection tells a few of those stories. The narratives move from light to darkness, serenity to violence, life to death, and, finally, to the hope of rebirth.