Meet Empress Simone

Empress Simone was born and raised in the Bronx of New York City, where she was educated in the Catholic school system. She attended Ashford University, earning her bachelor’s degree with honors in Journalism and Mass Communications with a minor in Sociology, graduating with a cumulative GPA of 3.53. Her goals are to become a powerhouse in the Independent Journalism field. One step she has taken to accomplish this is attending and graduating from Full Sail University for its New Media Journalism Masters Degree program in May 2021 with a GPA of 3.38. Empress Simone is enrolled in Full Sail University’s Entertainment Business Master’s program with an expected graduation date of February 2024. Her present GPA is 3.44. Empress Simone’s journalism website can be found by visiting https://ndiejournalist.wordpress.com/.

Empress Simone has published over 40 Urban Fiction titles available on Amazon.com. She also has 13 titles on Amazon’s new platform Kindle Vella. She has created two new oracle card lines named ‘Enchanted Empress Magical World of Oracles and Tarot’ that can be found on Ebay.com or her author’s website, https://empressedforlife.com/.

Empress has made the Amazon best sellers list various times and placed three times on UBAWA’s Top 100 African-American Authors for the years 2017,  2018 and 2022.
Empress Simone is a former member of the New York Association for Black Journalists.  Empress Simone’s mantra is “Power in the Pen.” Empress Simone has promised to dedicate her career as one who will use her words to benefit the community she holds dearly, ‘The Black community.” Speaking of which, you may find her magazine ‘Strictly for My People: An Urban Literary Magazine – The Rebirth Collection’ on magcloud.com, along with the first SFMP issues published in 2016.
Follow her social media pages at

Instagram:  Bx_storyteller
Twitter:  Author Empress
Facebook:  Author Empress Enchanted Empress Magical World of Oracles and Tarot
Website: https://empressedforlife.com/