Ed Simon

Ed Simon is the author of over a dozen books, including An Alternative History of Pittsburgh; Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology; and The Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named one of the bst books of 2024 by The New Yorker. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, The New Republic and The New York Times, among others. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Belt Magazine, and Creative Nonfiction Editor at Carnegie Mellon University Press.