Her boxing essay,“The Greatest” appeared on the official Muhammad Ali website along with works by Joyce Carol Oats and Norman Mailer.
bioStories, Anti-Heroine Chic, The Write Launch, Manifest Station, Faith Hope & Fiction and Persimmon Tree published her creative nonfiction.
Simons was the press person and gatekeeper to the stories of the terminally ill patient-plaintiffs defending Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act
at the U.S. Supreme Court, and worked for passage of assisted dying laws in several states. Publication of her memoir is forthcoming.