Jean-Pierre Siméon (born 6 May 1950) is a French poet, novelist, dramatist and translator.

His mother, Denise, was a teacher and his father, Roger, made a career in the national education administration and became head of publications at the University of Clermont-Ferrand where the family settled in 1962.

[2] In 1977, with his father and a group of poets from Auvergne, he was one of the founders of the ARPA magazine, of which he was director.

[3] He was the founder of Semaine de la poésie (“Poetry Week”) in Clermont-Ferrand in 1987.

From 2001 to 2017 he was the art director of “Printemps des poètes” (The Spring of Poets).