Simona David is a Communications and Public Relations Consultant living in the Catskill Mountains, New York. Her consulting expertise encompasses years of research and writing, working with New York State Watch at the State Legislature in Albany, NY, and previously as an Economist in Bucharest, Romania. Ms. David also has experience as a journalist, freelancing for various publications, including Chronogram and Upstater magazines.

She is the author of Self-Publishing and Book Marketing, A Research Guide (2013), Art in the Catskills (3rd. edition, 2016), and How Art Is Made: In the Catskills (2017).