Toni Simon is a multimedia artist and writer living in Brooklyn. As a visual artist she combines her interest in trance states, technology, science fiction and ancient art history into painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video animation and collaborative projects with poets. As an author Simon's illustrated book of experimental prose poetry "Earth After Earth" was published by Lunar Chandelier Press in 2012 and she is currently working on "Telescope Highway", an illustrated manuscript. Simon is collaborating with poet Joanna Fuhrman on a mixed-media literary project, and has illustrated books by poets Laynie Browne, Felix Bernstein and her husband Nick Piombino ("Contradicta: Aphorisms", Green Integer, 2010). She graduated from the San Francisco Art institute. Her drawings have been exhibited at the Drawing Center and A.I.R. Gallery in NYC and have been published in numerous literary publications.Toni Simon's Earth After Earth, like classic apocalyptic writing, not only offers oblique prophecies of what's to come, but captures the present, through the perspective of its alchemical, twilight language and dreamlike art. This verbal/visual text portrays a midnight world full of psychic threat yet how beautiful its demons and angels, its "forest people", "clairvoyant asteroids" and other denizens appear as they glow fiercely within its Dantesque, black lit landscapes. The end may be nigh, but it's sublime--Jerome SalaIn her little book Earth After Earth Toni Simon has created a universe that quietly reveals itself, as when in the solitude of dreaming we fracture emotions into condensed images and wake to interpret them, only to find that they've already changed shape. Each sentence is a revelation, as when in the mind of reading we imagine sentences forming that take us to another place. When mind, time, and eyes converge at a point of knowing then you can be sure that "even in the dark we know ourselves to be inhabited."--Kristin PrevalletEarth After Earth is an enigmatic prose poetry text which resonates with classic sci-fi futurism and oddness, yet when attended to closely, provokes and informs us by imagining the alternative realities of an altered present. Earth After Earth proposes that the other place and time is poetry--explored to the imaginal limits. Earth After Earth is illustrated with Toni Simon's quixotic black and white drawings which figure as portholes to a dream.--Kim LyonsSurreal new-sentence prescient-sci-fi psychedelia.--Nada Gordon