Ed Simon is a public humanities lecturer 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 for Rust Belt Magazine, a contributing editor to The Montreal Review, and a staff writer at LitHub. His most recent book is Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain (2024), named one of the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA.