Simon Wickhamsmith

Simon Wickhamsmith is an academic, musician, and translator of contemporary Mongolian literature. He teaches in the Asian Studies and Writing program at Rutgers University. He earned his PhD from the University of Washington, and has published translations of many works of contemporary Mongolian literature. Wickhamsmith was awarded a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of poet Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era.