Christian Simon writes: I write fiction and nonfiction. I try to write about identity, place, the making and unmaking of home — having grown up in South Africa and Germany, two of the 20th Century's most fucked-up countries, as my friends politely point out. I have a Ph.D. in anthropology, and try to draw a little on that, too. I have published nonfiction in various print journals, fiction and poetry mostly online, Alsop Review, Conspire."