Janni Lee Simner (born November 3, 1967, in New York City, US[1][2]) is an American author of fantasy and adventure novels and short stories.
She writes primarily for young adults as teenagers and upper elementary children.
[3] She was involved in a number of panels and autograph signings at the 2007 North American Science Fiction Convention.
She discussed how she was contacted later in life online by one of her childhood bullies and they became friends.
[6][7] In response to the multiple child sexual abuse allegations made against by Marion Zimmer Bradley by her own children, Simner announced on June 13, 2014, that she would be donating advances from her two Darkover books, her Darkover royalties and at the request of her husband, Larry Hammer, payment for his sale to Bradley’s magazine to the American anti-sexual assault organization Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.