Simone Mansell Broome is Welsh-born. She studied English with American Studies at Sussex University, qualified both as a teacher of Speech and Drama and of EFL and taught privately, and at secondary and further education levels. There was a period of fifteen years or so working alongside her husband in two successful small businesses. After being a very long time on the other side of the Severn Bridge, she returned to Wales in 2007 to live and work on a small organic farm.

This farm has grown into a thriving family business with sustainability and community values at its core: it operates as a centre for ‘alternative’ weddings, for holidays – especially glamping holidays, for a variety of workshops and courses and as a ‘pop-up’ restaurant.

Simone has three published books of poetry, and two books of prose, has been recorded on Poetcasting and her poems have been read on radio and TV. Simone is a member of Second Light network of women poets & has poems on the ‘poetrypf’ website.

Simone has been successful in written and spoken poetry competitions.. She has been published in many anthologies, magazines, and ezines including:-

Carillon, Envoi, Roundyhouse, Buzz, Cinnamon Press, Ragged Raven, Boomslang, Cane Arrow Press, The Interpreter’s House, www.ink-sweat-and-tears.com, www.jbwb.co.uk, Leaf Books, Norwich’s Writers’ Circle Anthology, Templar Poetry, Iota, The Voice of Women in Wales, Red Lamp Black Piano, Poems for the Year 2020, Gwrthryfel Uprising, Wildfire Words, Dreich.

She has represented Wales in BBC Radio 4’s performance poetry slam. Fifty of Simone’s poems were translated into Romanian in 2020 as part of a Bucharest University M.A. dissertation. Simone has been commissioned to write poems by ITV, by a local theatre group and an art gallery.

Simone’s first children’s book, about a family of mice living through lockdown, was published by Pretty Pug Publishing in June 2021 – ‘Valletta and the Year of Changes’ . Simone is currently working on a memoir and another collection of poems