FLORENCE SIMMONS co-founded the book review blog “Book Nerds Across America” in 2010. The blog remains active and has expanded to social media, where you can still find her and her friends sharing book reviews, recaps of bookish events, and more. She is a book reviews editor for School Library Journal and an author; her debut novel, The Summer Scrapbook, will be published in the spring of 2026 by Lerner Publishing Group.