Ed Simon is Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, a staff writer for Literary Hub, and the editor of Belt Magazine. A widely published author, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, among dozens of others. Author of over a dozen books, his Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain was included in the "Best Books of 2024" by The New Yorker.