Margaret SimonMargaret Simon is a Mississippi native who married into a Louisiana life. She lives on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana, with her husband, Jeff. Their now empty nest once housed three daughters, Maggie, Katherine, and Martha. She holds a mastr's degree in Gifted Education and certification by the National Boards for Professional Teaching Standards. Simon has been an elementary school teacher for thirty-one years, most recently teaching gifted students in Iberia Parish.

Simon is the author of Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape and Were You There? A Biography of Emma Wakefield Paillet. She has published poems in the journal The Aurorean, anthologies for Today's Little Ditty, in Poetry Friday Power Book Here We Go, and in National Geographic's The Poetry of US.