Simone Muench is an American poet and a professor of creative writing and film studies. She was raised in the small town of Benson, Louisiana and also Arkansas.Chicago Magazine, July 2006 Chicago Magazine She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Colorado in Boulder, received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University in Romeoville.
She is the author of five books: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000),Simone Muench | IndieBound Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010),Poetry Review: Orange Crush by Simone Muench - Gapers Block Book Club | Chicago Disappearing Address, a collaboration of epistolary poems co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX Books, 2010),ISSUU - Gently Read Literature December 2011 Issue by Carol Jackson and the upcoming Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014).Muench named to New City’s top 50 published writers list Her chapbook Trace received the Black River Chapbook Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014.Wolf Cento - Tirage Monthly
Awards and achievements NEA Fellowship for Poetry : 2013Dr. Muench receives NEA award for her poetic work New City's Lit 50 “Who Really Books in Chicago” 2014 list : 2014 Artsmith Residency Fellowship : 2014TWO POEMS by Simone Muench | Four Way Review Yaddo Writers Residency : 2013Lit 50 2014: Who Really Books in Chicago | Newcity Lit - Part 4 Vermont Studio Center Fellowships : 2011, 2013Simone Muench | NEA Interviewed by Daniel Handler for the September 2010 issue of The BelieverSwitchback Books: Simone Muench in The Believer Chief Faculty Advisor for Jet Fuel ReviewSimone Muench | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers Lewis Faculty Scholar Award : 2013Written words strike a balance in professors’ life – Lewis University's Student Newspaper in Romeoville, IL Kentucky Women Writers Conference : 2010Kentucky Women Writers Conference, featuring C.E. Morgan and Diane Ackerman | Ace Weekly Illinois Arts Council Fellowships : 2009Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award Winners | Book Cellar | Literary Events | Chicago Recipient of the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest with a featured reading in Times Square;2008 Winners - Poetry Society of America Black Lawrence Chapbook Contest for Trace : 2012
List of works
Books The Air Lost in Breathing (Helicon Nine, 2000) Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande, 2005) Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010) Disappearing Address with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX, 2010) Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014) Suture with Dean Rader (Black Lawrence, 2017)
Chapbooks Trace (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) Little Visceral Carnival (Cinematheque Press, 2009) Orange Girl (Dancing Girl Press, 2007) Sonoluminescence (Dusie Press, 2007) Notebook. Knife. Mentholatum (New Michigan Press, 2003)
References
External links http://simonemuench.com/ http://www.blacklawrence.com/author/simone-muench/