Description: Ed Simon is the Executive Director of Belt Media Collaborative and the Editor-in-Chief for Belt Magazine and an emeritus staff writer at The Millions, which the New York Times has called the "indispensable literary site," as well as being a monthly columnist for both 3 Quarks Daily and LitHub. Among a coterie of young critics who've helped to…
Ed Simon is the Executive Director of Belt Media Collaborative and the Editor-in-Chief for Belt Magazine , a contributing editor for the History News Network , and an emeritus staff writer at The Millions, which the New York Times has called the “indispensable literary site.” He is the author of several books, including An Alternative History of Pittsburgh from Belt Publishing and most recently Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, a work of illustrated nonfiction released by Abrams. Currently he
His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, S alon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others, while his anonymous reviews appear in Publishers Weekly.
Originally a native of Pittsburgh, he has lived in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, and now his hometown again. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and has taught as a college instructor for fifteen years, in disciplines including English literature and composition, journalism, rhetoric, religious studies, and political science, at institutions including Point Park University, Duquesne University, Lehigh University, Bentley University, American University, and Mt. Aloysius College. Startin