| Simone White | |
| Birth Place: | Middletown, Connecticut |
| Alma Mater: | Wesleyan University (BA) Harvard University (JD) The New School (MFA) CUNY Graduate Center (PhD) |
| Genre: | Poetry, criticism |
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| Awards: | Whiting Award (2017) |
Simone White (born 1972) is an American poet, literary critic, and assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2017, she won a Whiting Award for poetry.[1] Much of her writing style is a hybrid between poetry and prose.
White was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia.[2] She has a BA from Wesleyan University and earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1997. She practiced law for seven years after graduation.[3] Since then, she has also earned an MFA from The New School and a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[4]
She was a visiting associate professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in Spring 2018.[5]
As of 2020, she is an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania.[6]
White was award a Whiting Award for Poetry in 2017.
She was selected as a "New American Poet" by the Poetry Society of America in 2013.[7]