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Simone Gorrindo

Simone Gorrindo is a Senior Editor at Vela. Her work has appeared or is fortthcoming in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Best Women’s Travel Writing, SELF and Tablet, among other publications. She is also a developmental editor at Girl Friday Productions. You can follow her on Twitter @SimoneGorrindo, and she can be reached at simoneATvelamagDOTcom.

Body of WorkNovember 10, 2015

Tiny Little Messes

By Simone Gorrindo

All weekend, I’ve been in bed, in the limbo land of the sick. It’s a space I know well, a territory I’ve occupied for periods of time throughout my adult life…

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Women We Read This WeekAugust 23, 2014

Women We Read This Week

By Simone Gorrindo

Camille T. Dungy’s “A Brief History of Near and Actual Losses” in Virginia Quarterly Review At the Cape Coast Castle on the Ghanaian coast,…

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FeaturesFebruary 25, 2014

A Return to Limantour

By Simone Gorrindo

The sublet in Berkeley was our last resort. My father and I had been kicked out of the bottom floor of a house in Sausalito for breaking…

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The Writing LifeFebruary 13, 2014

The Writer and the Army Wife

By Simone Gorrindo

Recently, I published a short essay about saying goodbye to my husband before his first deployment. The piece is, as you might imagine, a crier…

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BooksSeptember 16, 2013

An Unwanted Guest

By Simone Gorrindo

I didn’t see the jellyfish, but I felt it—a searing pain at my ankle that shot up through my leg, bringing me, in a matter of seconds, to my knees in the sand.

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Women We Read This WeekAugust 30, 2013

Women We Read This Week

By Simone Gorrindo

Julialicia Case’s “Your New Neighborhood” in Witness In this vivid little essay Julialicia Case slides between the garbage, dog piss, and roadkill carnage of the place where…

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Books, Interviews, Women We Read This WeekAugust 23, 2013

Women We Read This Week

By Simone Gorrindo

“The Rumpus Interview With Rachel Kushner” on The Rumpus After reading The Flamethrowers, I developed a massive lady writer crush on Rachel Kushner, and…

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Women We Read This WeekAugust 16, 2013

Women We Read this Week

By Simone Gorrindo

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky’s “The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia” in Vice This is a story that I did not want to read because I knew it…

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The Writing LifeJuly 31, 2013

A Hidden Writing Life

By Simone Gorrindo

For the first time in my life, I have a room of my own in which to write. I also have the precious commodities of solitude and time.

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Books, Reviews, The Writing Life, Women We Read This WeekJuly 26, 2013

Women We Read This Week

By Simone Gorrindo

Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…

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Interviews, The Gender Gap, Women We Read This WeekJuly 19, 2013

Women We Read this Week

By Simone Gorrindo

It’s exciting and encouraging to note that two of the most significant and widely discussed stories this week were by female journalists. They’re reviewed…

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The Writing Life, Women We Read This WeekJuly 12, 2013

Women We Read This Week

By Simone Gorrindo

Francesca Borri’s “Woman’s Work” in Columbia Journalism Review This CJR piece has been making the rounds this week. It’s by an Italian freelancer in…

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