Daniel Simon is the editor in chief of World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture. A Nebraska native, he received his doctorate in comparative literature—with an emphasis in translation studies—from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2000. At OU, in addition to his work at WLT, he teaches for the Department of English and serves as an affiliate faculty member in the Department of International & Area Studies. A poet, translator, and member of PEN American Center, the National Book Critics Circle, and the Academy of American Poets, Daniel’s verse chapbook, Cast Off, was published in 2015, and a full-length collection, After Reading Everything, is due out in spring 2016. His poems have been nominated for a 2016 PEN Center USA award and Pushcart Prize XLI and reprinted in the anthologies World English Poetry (2015) and Oklahoma Poems . . . and Their Poets (2014). He lives in Norman with his wife and three daughters.

Publications

• Cast Off , Edwin Smith Publishing (September 24, 2015)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in French and English from University of Nebraska, Lincoln (August 1990)
• Doctoral Degree in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington (May 2000)

Genres of Interest

Poetry