Simona is a London-based illustrator and author with a background in graphic design. She studied Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (MA), graduating in 2024 with a distinction.

While her visual language is primarily painterly and hand drawn, her illustrations generally include bold shapes and are finalised digitally. She enjoys visual synthesis and infusing her artwork with humour and emotions. Experimenting in the print room during her studies led her to employ layering in some of her work, emulating processes such as risograph printing.

Simona won the World Illustration Award in the Children’s Publishing category as New Talent in 2023. In 2024, she was named a finalist in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair exhibition and her work was included in the dPictus Unpublished Picturebook Showcase 5.