Kozbi Simmons has a memoir in progress about mental illness, abuse, body, and family. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College and an MAT from Johns Hopkins University. Her work has been published in Lit Hub, Assay, and Reservoir Road Literary Review. Kozbi has been an English teacher in Baltimore for 15 years.
He lived in the house behind us. We lived in a duplex on Second Street in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania—a small town. I always thought it was the hugest, coolest house ever.…