User:Geo Swan/Simone Dalton

Simone Dalton is a Canadian writer of Trinidadian descent. Her first book, a memoir, was picked for the 2019 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Mark Bourrie won the RBC Taylor Prize for 2019. Among his duties and responsibilities are to choose the receipient of the Emerging Writer Award, and then to mentor the protege they chose. Bourrie called Dalton "a vibrant new voice".

In 2017 Dalton was one of the presenters at the Festival of Authors.

Dalton earned a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. She was supported by two research scholarships during her work on her Masters.

Dalton's first play, VOWS, was produced at Soulpepper Theatre, while she was still at Grad School.