Simon Jimenez

Simon Jimenez is a Filipino-American writer of speculative fiction whose novels include The Vanished Birds, his first, which was a finalist for the 2021 Locus Award for Best First Novel and the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Another novel, The Spear Cuts Through Water, mixes fantasy with magical realism. Jimenez earned an MFA from Emerson College, and his short fiction has appeared in Canyon Voices and the flash fiction anthology Nothing Short Of.