Simone Da Costa-Canadian Author, Freelance Writer, & Publisher

Simone Da Costa is a writer, author, publisher, and freelance magazine writer from the province of Ontario, Canada.  She has written for many North American publications such as Africulture, Planet Africa, Mudd Magazine, and The Caribbean Current, to name a few.  Simone was a nominee in the media category for the Women on Fire Award in 2014.

Simone has published a devotional day planner, Remember to Pray, a 2013 Day Planner, as well as two children's books.  A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z, Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm, and a coloring book; Coloring and Activity Book:  Based on A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z. Simone's fourth children's book is called I Am Beautiful: When I Look at Me, I See...is set to launch on February 28, 2015 at the Toronto Urban Book Expo.  This inspirational book, created for middle school aged Black girls, aims to empower and liberate them to believe that they are beautiful, despite society's notion of what "beauty" is.

In an era where the popular idealistic images of beauty are based on the western world's realism of beauty, it illustrates that beauty begins with knowing who you are, believing it, and accepting yourself as you are.

Simone Da Costa