Simon John Edge (born 25 December 1964 in Chester, England) is a British novelist, editor and journalist.

He was on staff at the London Evening Standard and joined the Daily Express in 1999, where he spent many years as a feature writer and theatre critic.

[7] A Right Royal Face-Off was described by Gainsborough authority Hugh Belsey as "beguiling" and "beautifully managed and brilliantly resolved".

[10] Writing in The Critic, Josephine Bartosch described In the Beginning as "a pacy satire" and "a stylish retelling of the Maya Forstater tribunal".

[11] Also in The Critic, Helen Dale has written of his work: "Edge is not simply holding social foibles and cod science up to ridicule.