Greg Simon

Greg Simon was born in Minnesota, but has lived most of his life in the Pacific Northwest. He was educated in Seattle, Iowa City, and Palo Alto, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Stanford University. He is the co-translator, with Steven F. White and Christopher Maurer, of Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1988, and recently reissued in a fully revised edition in 2014. Other Simon/White collaborations include books of poetry by Gaston Baquero (Cuba), Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Nicaragua), and Rubén Dario (Nicaragua).

Greg has been a contributing and translation editor for Porch, White Pine Press, The Salt River Review, and Trask House Books. He has published poems, translations, essays and reviews in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Northwest Review. Current work can be found in Hinchas de Poesía, a digital codex of contemporary Pan-American writing. He lives and works in an old wooden house above the west bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon.