Marge Simon Poets’ Espresso newsletter South—October-November 2008 Marge Ballif Simon free lances as a writerpoetillustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as From the Asylum, Chizine, The Pedestal Magazine, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Aeon, Vestal Review, more. Her dark poetry collection with Charlee Jacob, Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Dark Regions Press, won the Bram Stoker Award in 2008. Her self illustrated poetry collection, Artist of Antithesis, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2004. Marge is former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and now serves as editor of Star*Line.