Simone Dalton is an author, writing practice coach, and founder of Island Scribe and its writing retreats. Her work traces the landscapes of grief, memory, and belonging across the Caribbean diaspora, inviting readers to sit inside complexity and care. Recipient of the 2020 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Prize for nonfiction, she holds an MFA from the University of Guelph.

Her writing appears in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, Black Writers Matter, The Unpublished City: Volume I, Watch Your Head, and ARC Poetry Magazine. Her play VOWS was produced as part of the collaboration, Welcome to My Underworld. Forthcoming work includes a memoir-in-vignettes in the anthology women, walking (Coach House Books, 2026).

Named one of Room Magazine’s “20 Black Writers to Read All Year Round,” her work has been supported by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Writers’ Trust of Canada. As a teaching artist, Simone has guided writers aged 14 to 80+, serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and one of the inaugural Black Teaching Fellows at Boston’s creative writing centre, GrubStreet.

Simone’s debut memoir, What Remains, will be published by Scribner Canada, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Canada.

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she lives in Toronto, where she continues to write, teach, and discover questions to trouble.

Simone is represented by Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency.