Glori Simmons (born 1966) is an American poet, and short story writer.

Simmons graduated from the University of Washington and from the University of Michigan with an MFA. She was a 2003 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.^[1]

She is the author of Graft/Poems (Truman State University Press,^[2] 2001) and the recipient of the 2015 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea 79, Five Fingers Review^[3] and Quarterly West.^[4]

She is the director of the Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco.^[5]

• 2001 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award co-winner^[6]
• 2001 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, by the Beloit Poetry Journal
• 2004 Dana Award, for short fiction
• 2005 Camargo Foundation Fellowship^[7]
• 2005 Chelsea Award, for short fiction
• 2015 Spokane Prize, for short fiction (collection)
• 2017 Autumn House Fiction Prize [1]

• "Graft", Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol 51, Summer 2001 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Graft: poems. Truman State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-931112-03-1.
• Stephen Elliott; Greg Larson; Anthony Ha, eds. (2005). "Peaches". Stumbling and raging: more politically inspired fiction. MacAdam/Cage Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59692-158-0. [anthology]
• Suffering Fools. Willow Springs Books. 2017. ISBN 9780983231776.
• Carry You. Autumn House. 2018. ISBN 9781938769290.