About the Author

Daniel Simon is assistant director and editor in chief of World Literature Today magazine at the University of Oklahoma, where he also teaches for the Department of English. A poet and translator, his verse chapbook, Cast Off, appeared with Edwin E. Smith Publishing in 2015 and was nominated for the PEN Center USA, Independent Publisher (IPPY), and Oklahoma Book awards. Individual poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses and reprinted in the anthologies World English Poetry (2015) and Oklahoma Poems... and Their Poets (2014). They have also appeared in various literary journals--including The Adirondack Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, and Fulcrum--and been translated into German, Greek, Spanish, and Turkish. Daniel lives in Norman, Oklahoma, with his wife and three daughters.