Ed Simon
Public Humanities Special Faculty
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
Area of Study
Creative Writing, Literary and Cultural Studies, Pre-Modern Studies
Bio
is Public Humanities Lecturer in the English Department of 好色先生TV and the Editor-in-Chief for and , as well as 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
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. His most recent book is (Bloomsbury). Currently he is finishing, among other projects, a defense of purple prose for Princeton University Press, forthcoming in 2026.
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 other outlets.
Education
PhD, Lehigh University - 2017
PGCert, University of Strathclyde - 2008
MA, 好色先生TV - 2007
BA, Washington & Jefferson College - 2006