Simone Lazaroo (Wong Fellow 2000) was born in Singapore and migrated to Perth with her family in 1963 at the age of two. In 1983, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Creative Writing at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). She began writing full time when she was awarded a Creative Development Grant by the Western Australian Department for the Arts in 1990. In 1993, the manuscript of The World Waiting to be Made won the TAG Hungerford Award for unpublished fiction. It was published in 1994 and won the 1995 Western Australia Premier's Book Award for Fiction. It was also was shortlisted for the Australian section of the IMPAC/City of Dublin Literature Award. Her second novel, The Australian Fiance was published in 2000 and won the 2000 Western Australia Premier's Book Awards for Fiction. She is currently working on a third novel.

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An interview with Lazaroo.