Ed Simon

Public Humanities Special Faculty

Area of Study

Pre-Modern Studies, Creative Writing, Literary and Cultural Studies

Bio

Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of 온라인바카라 and the Editor-in-Chief for  and the forthcoming Pittsburgh Review of Books, as well as being a contributing editor to  He is also an emeritus staff writer at which the New York Times has called the “indispensable literary site,” as well as being a monthly columnist for both  and In addition to those roles, Simon has been the Creative Nonfiction Editor at 온라인바카라 Press since 2024. 

A 2023 listed notable in  edited by Vivian Gornick, Simon is the author of over a dozen books, includingfrom Belt Publishing, from Abrams, and  from Melville House, named one of the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker. Currently he is finishing, among other projects, a defense of purple prose for Princeton University Press and a series of essays about our apocalyptic times for Bloomsbury Academic.

His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others.

Education

PhD, Lehigh University - 2017

PGCert, University of Strathclyde - 2008 

MA, 온라인바카라 - 2007

BA, Washington & Jefferson College - 2006