Simone M. Scully is an editor, writer, photographer, and playwright based in New York.

Her work has covered numerous topics, including science, health, the environment, travel, social good, animals, and the arts. Her work has appeared on Healthline, Upworthy, Greatist, Well+Good, PsychCentral, Weather.com, GOOD, Nautilus, Mental Floss, Motherfigure’s The Mothership, Audubon magazine, Narratively, Geek.com, Truly Mama, WhatToExpect.com, BestGifts.com, Mashable, AskMen.com, Spectrum (Columbia's School of Social Work's magazine), and Inside New York. 

As branded content editor at The Weather Channel, she project-managed all branded content creation for Forecast:Change, an initiative with IBM, which won the 2020 IAC Award for Best Environmental Online Campaign, the 2020 CMA award for Best Series of Articles, the 2020 Digiday Award for Best B2C Branded Content Site, and the 2020 Eppy Award for Best Promotional/Marketing Campaign. The project also got Third Place for Best Branded Content Project at the WAN IRFA 2020 North American Digital Media Awards, and was awarded an Honorable Mention for Cause Marketing/CSR by PR Daily’s 2020 Digital PR & Social Media Awards.

She is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her Master's degree in Journalism and was awarded the John Horgan Award for Critical Science Journalism.

Born in Minnesota, Simone moved to Toulouse, France when she was four years old. She lived in France for 14 years, before moving to London, England to study International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

As a playwright, she writes under the pen name Simone Marie Martelle. She has an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University's School of the Arts.  Her work has been performed at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theater, 13th Street Repertory Theatre, the Hovey Players SummerFest, and at Curan Repertory Theatre.