Simone Snaith was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to musician parents who played in popular local punk/New Wave bands. She spent most of her childhood reading, singing to herself (or occasionally back-up vocals on her parents' recordings), and writing the beginnings of novels that she never finished. Immersed in the world of Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, He-Man and She-Ra, etc, she was a shy daydreamer, saddled with a bowl haircut and overly large glasses.

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Her family moved to Southern California when she was 8 years old and by age 12, she was attending a small magnet school in Los Angeles for grades 4 thru 12 alongside a lot of frighteningly big kids. Behind a thick curtain of dirty-blonde hair, she dreamed of starting a rock band and being a writer. She fell in love with ElfQuest by Wendy and Richard Pini, and wrote her first novel, heavily inspired by The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.

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She went on to study Creative Writing at U.C. Riverside under author Susan Straight and spent a fantastic year abroad at The University of London, King's College, during which she hacked off her long hair and started dying it different colors. Afterward she sang in a short-lived post-hardcore band and wrote From The Ashes (The Fairville Woods #1), a Young Adult vampire novel that very quickly landed her an agent but somehow, unfortunately, not a book deal.

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After Snaith had written several other novels (including an early version of Between The Water & The Woods), the agent vanished into smoke. So she began to self-publish. She worked in publicity at two independent record labels and started an indie folk band while publishing Through The Eyes (Fairville Woods #2), The Indigo Stone (Fantasy) and In The Drawing (Urban Fantasy) through Amazon—the last one technically through Blue Deco Publishing.

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Eventually, an updated version of Snaith’s YA Fantasy novel Between The Water & The Woods reached editor Mora Couch at Holiday House Books (Penguin RandomHouse). Having started a new pop/rock band called Turning Violet, as well as a new job at a bustling record store, Snaith watched with delight as Between The Water & The Woods hit the stores in March 2019 with Sara Kipin's beautiful illustrations.

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Snaith is currently seeking a home for a new Fantasy novella while continuing to record new music with Turning Violet.