Simone White was born Middletown, Connecticut, and raised in Philadelphia.

She earned her BA from Wesleyan University, JD from Harvard Law School, and MFA from the New School.

White is the author of the full-length collection House Envy of All the World (2010) and the chapbooks Dolly (2008) and Unrest (2013).

Her work has been praised for its innovative complexity, allusive song, and “lyric deconstruction of desire, entitlement, blackness, the domestic, language and diction,” in the words of Anna Moschovakis.

White has received fellowships from Cave Canem and was selected as a New American Poet for the Poetry Society of America.

She is completing a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center and lives in Brooklyn, New York.