Lisa Simone Kingstone - author and essayist

Writing about mortality, race, identity
and the subjects we avoid.

Lisa Simone Kingstone is the author of Fading Out Black and White, featured on BBC Radio 4. A 2025 Rockower Award recipient for excellence in personal essay, she has recently completed a manuscript of linked essays, Exit, Stage Left, that explores how the living wrestle with dying. A retired literature professor from King’s College London, her work has appeared in Psyche and Lilith, among others.

Exit, Stage Left Stick Your Head Out the Window Fading Out Black and White

“A forensically crafted masterclass of clarity—essential reading.”