Dan Simpson

Dan Simpson’s most recent book, Inside the Invisible, published by Nine Mile Books in November 2022, won the inaugural Propel Poetry Prize and has been nominated for the American Academy of Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Dan’s other books include Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems, co-authored with his wife, Ona Gritz, and School for the Blind. His work has been anthologized in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability and has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review and many other journals. He sings with the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia and works as a technical support specialist for the Library of Congress’ National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled. He’s a member of the Class of 1974 50th Reunion Committee and is hoping to see lots of classmates at the reunion (September 20-22). Dan lives in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, with his wife, their rescue chihuahua, Portia, and Dan’s guide dog, Boone.