Bio/Contact

José Simián (1975) is a New York-based writer, producer and reporter. His work on politics, media and culture has appeared in New York Daily News, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated Latino, Billboard en Español, Latina, Qué Pasa, La Tercera and El Mercurio. He is also the host and producer of Contraportada, a weekly interview segment with Latino artists and intellectuals on 24-hour news cable station NY1 Noticias (Time Warner Cable). He is currently the Associate Editor of About en Español. Before becoming a writer, José worked as a lawyer (JD Universidad de Chile, 2002; LLM Columbia University, 2005) and taught Jurisprudence and Law and Literature in Chile. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Contact: jmsimian@gmail.com

Interviewing Joan Ubeda for NY1 Noticias. Barcelona, April 2010. Photo by Fernando Bague.