Simone Muench grew up in Louisiana and Arkansas before moving to
Colorado to receive her BA and MA from the University of Colorado. Her first book The Air Lost in Breathing won
the Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry (Helicon Nine, 2000). Her second Lampblack & Ash received the Kathryn A.
Morton Prize for Poetry (Sarabande Books, 2005), and was one of the editor’s selections in the New York Times Book
Review. Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press, 2007) and Sonoluminescence written with
Bill Allegrezza (Dusie Press, 2007). She has poems appearing in Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, American Poet, and
the anthology The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century. She received her Ph.D from the University of
Illinois at Chicago, and is an assistant professor and director of the Writing Program at Lewis University. Currently, she
serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books and is a contributing editor to Sharkforum where she presents a 'poem
of the week' series.
