SIMONE MUENCH
Simone Muench is the author of three books: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010). Her latest chapbook, co-written with Philip Jenks, is Little Visceral Carnival (Cinematheque, 2009). She serves on the advisory boards of Switchback Books and UniVerse, and is a recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Prize, and other awards. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and directs the Writing Program at Lewis University where she teaches creative writing and film studies. Raised in the South, she now lives in Chicago where she is a vegetarian and a horror film fan. Her website is www.simonemuench.com