Simone John
Neighborhood Luminary Salon
Simone John is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on transgressive Black femininity and the legacy of the Great Migration in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a fabulist archival storyteller working primarily in digital media, poetry, and performance. Simone holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, with an emphasis on documentary poetics. Her debut poetry collection Testify (Octopus Books) was published in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at the Harriet Tubman House Gallery, the August Wilson Society Colloquium, inPUBLIC Festival of Public Making, and Projecting Our Future. She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship and a residency at The Strange Foundation.
To know more, you can follow along at simonejohn.com or on Instagram at @auntiesbabyaudio.
Photo by Tarik Bartel
The Neighborhood Salon is supported in part by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs, the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. These programs are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
