Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and editor in chief of literary journal * Belt Magazine.A staff writer for LitHub *, his essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the * Atlantic,the Paris Review Daily, the New ...

Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and editor in chief of literary journal * Belt Magazine.A staff writer for LitHub *, his essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the * Atlantic,the Paris Review Daily, the New Republic , and the * Washington Post. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his family.