Born in 1987 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Simmons studied folklore and library science at the University of Vermont before working nights in the Providence Athenaeum's archives and later as a collections technician at a small maritime museum on the Maine coast. His short fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, The Dark, and anthologies of coastal Gothic. Known for blending maritime history with uncanny, artifact-driven horror, he lives in Salem, Massachusetts, with his partner and a rescue greyhound, and volunteers with local historical societies preserving ephemera from New England mill towns.
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