Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Genoa, Italy
• Education—B.S., engineering; Ph.D., computer science;
training in neuroscience—all US schools
• Currently—lives in Palm Spring, California USA
Lina Simoni was born in Genoa, Italy and moved to the US in 1988 to pursue an academic career. With a B.S. in Engineering, a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and training in Neuroscience, she did research and taught for 12 years at major American institutions (MIT, Northwestern University, McGill University) in the field of Computational Neuroscience, studying and modeling the functions of the human brain. She abandoned her scientific endeavors in 2000, when she decided to turn her lifelong hobbies (literature and art) into full-time professional activities. Trained at the Art Insitute of Chicago and the Evanston Art Center, she showed her paintings and photographs in galleries in the Midwest, Northeast, Florida, and the South of France.
On the literary front, she is a graduate of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Santa Fe Writers' Conference, and other literary/screenwriting events. She is a member of the National League of American Pen Women. Simoni authored two novels, award-winning The Scent of Rosa's Oil and Villa Serenata, published in the US and Europe; one children's book, Sofia's Rainbow; and numerous short stories and screenplays. Her son, Tommaso, is a talented actor/musician as well as a scholar of the cultures (languages, history, philosophy) of the Mediterranean basin. Simoni lives in Palm Springs, CA. (From the author's website.)