Svetozar Daniel Simko (b.1959) was a Slovak poet and translator who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, then emigrated/fled to the USA with his parents after the Soviet invasion in 1968. He attended Oberlin and Columbia, and worked as a librarian at the New York Public Library until his untimely death, at age 45, in 2004. Simko wrote his poems in English and published a few in journals, both in the USA and in translation in Europe.