Daniel Simon

Daniel Simon is assistant director and editor in chief of World Literature Today magazine at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves on the affiliate faculty in English, International Studies, and Judaic Studies. A poet, essayist, and translator, his newest book of poems, Under a Gathering Sky, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2024 and follows two previous collections, Cast Off (2015) and After Reading Everything (2016). His newest edited anthology—A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature—published by Restless Books in February 2026, commemorates World Literature Today’s centennial in 2026–2027 and features more than 130 essays, book reviews, interviews, poems, and stories that have appeared in the magazine since 1927. Previously, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (Phoneme/Deep Vellum, 2020), which he edited, was a Publishers Weekly starred pick and finalist for a 2020 Foreword INDIES Award. His first edited volume, Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017 (SFA Press, 2017), won a 2018 Nebraska Book Award and was named to NPR's "50 States" booklist in 2022. Individual poems have been nominated for seven Pushcart Prizes and reprinted in the anthologies Voices Now: World Poetry Today (2023), World English Poetry (2015), and Oklahoma Poems . . . and Their Poets (2014). They have also appeared in various literary journalsand been translated into Arabic, French, German, Greek, Spanish, and Turkish. Simon's professional memberships include the Academy of American Poets. He and his wife live in Norman, Oklahoma, and have three daughters.