Julia Press Simmons is the CEO of QMB Publishing, Amerime Media LLC, Sticky Situations LLC, and the Editor-in-Chief of Amerime Wire Magazine and Intellectual Ink Magazine. She is the critically acclaimed author of more than twenty books. Julia writes dark fantasy, paranormal romance, science fiction, and comic books with her husband under the pen names Simmons Gibbs and Mwandishi. She is an award-winning spoken word artist and playwright. Her play "Down There" was selected by the Shades of Black Festival Emerging Playwrights Series in Nashville, Tennessee. "Down There" also received a staged reading by the African American Playwriting Exchange in New York City. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.