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SUTURE
Black Lawrence Press, 2017
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ORANGE CRUSH

Sarabande Books, 2010
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WOLF CENTOS
Sarabande Books, 2014
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LAMPBLACK & ASH

Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry

Sarabande Books, 2005

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DISAPPEARING ADDRESS

BlazeVox, 2010
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THE AIR LOST IN BREATHING
Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry
Helicon Nine, 2000
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CHAPBOOKS

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HEX & HOWL

Black Lawrence Press, 2021
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Review at Harriet Books--Poetry Foundation

TRACE

Black Lawrence Press, 2014
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LITTLE VISCERAL CARNIVAL

Cinematheque Press, 2009

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ORANGE GIRL
Dancing Girl Press, 2007

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NOTEBOOK. KNIFE. MENTHOLATUM.
New Michigan Press, 2003

Out of Print

SONOLUMINESCENCE

Dusie Press, 2007

Out of Print

 ANTHOLOGY

THEY SAID: A MULTI-GENRE ANTHOLOGY

OF CONTEMPORARY COLLABORATIVE

WRITING

Black Lawrence Press, 2018

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POETRY BOOKS

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THE UNDER HUM
Black Lawrence Press, 2024

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Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author five full-length collections: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010), Disappearing Address, co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX, 2010), and Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014). She is also the author of the chapbook Trace which received the Black River Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2014).

 

In 2014, she was honored to receive Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Charitable Foundation for the Arts Achievement Award for  innovation, achievements and community contributions. She is also the recipient of a 2013 NEA Fellowship for Poetry, two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, residency fellowships to Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, Artsmith, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, the Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, 2013 and 2015 Lewis Faculty Scholar Awards, and the PSA’s Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest among others.

After receiving her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she began directing the Writing Program at Lewis University where she is Professor of English and teaches creative writing and film studies. Currently, she serves as chief faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review.

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Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago, IL. She is the author of seven full-length collections: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry and a New York Times Editor’s Choice; Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (2010 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Poetry; Sarabande, 2010), Disappearing Address, co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX, 2010), Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014), Suture, co-written with Dean Rader (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), and The Under Hum, co-written with Jackie K. White (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). She is also the author of Trace which received the Black River Chapbook Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), and the editor, with Dean Rader, Jackie K. White, and Sally Ashton, of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018).

 

In 2014, she was honored to receive The Meier Charitable Foundation for the Arts Achievement Award for innovation, achievements, and community contributions. She is also the recipient of a 2013 NEA Fellowship for Poetry, a 2023 Lewis University Career Scholarship Award, three Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, the Frederick Stern Award for Teaching, several Lewis Faculty Scholar Awards, the PSA’s Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest, and residency fellowships to Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, Artsmith, VCCA, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts.

 

After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she began directing the Writing Program at Lewis University where she is Professor of English and teaches creative writing and film studies. She has also served as visiting writer for Northwestern University's MA/MFA in Creative Writing Graduate Program. Currently, she serves as chief faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review,  as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and as poetry editor for JackLeg Press.

 

She created the Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & Cocktails at Hungry Brain, which she co-hosts with Kenyatta Rogers.

NEWS & EVENTS

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2023

Recipient of the 2023 Lewis University Career Scholarship Award, given once to a faculty member for lifetime scholarly achievement

Her book Wolf Centos was one of The Guardian's selections for "Top 10 Stories about Wolves"

Recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Agency 2023 Artist Fellowship Award in Poetry

"Against Teleology," first published in The Journal appears in The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays (University of Iowa Press) and Between Paradise & Earth: Eve Poems (Orison Press)

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, appear in Swwim, Diode, Zone 3, Bellevue Literary Review, and Harbor Review. They are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, and NELLE. 

"The OED Defines Red Hot" appears in the in the RED: a Hue Are You Anthology (Jambu Press, 2023).

Three elegies, co-written with Jackie K. White, forthcoming in In The Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence, 2024)

2022

Awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)

 

Recipient of a 2022-23 Lewis Faculty Scholar Award

 

Creative nonfiction piece, "Monsters, Murders, & Suitcases," forthcoming in North American Review.

Verse Daily Web Weekly Feature, July 25, 2022 for "Portrait as Landscape: Untranslatable" (first published in Shenandoah)

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, appear in NewCity, Cider Press Review, and Zócalo Public Square

AWP 2022 Conference Panel: "New Directions in the American Sonnet," March 26th

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, are forthcoming in ShenandoahZone 3, swamppink, Puerto del Sol, and Salamander.

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, are forthcoming in the following anthologies: 

-The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, University of Iowa Press

-Odes to Our Undoing: Writers Reflecting on Crisis, Risk Press and Saint Mary’s College of California

-Between Paradise and Earth: Eve Poems, Orison Books

2021

Hex & Howl is available from Black Lawrence Press. You can read a review of it at Harriet Books/Poetry Foundation by Ryo Yamaguchi.

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, appear in Missouri ReviewAmerican Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Gulf Coast, RHINO, and Hobart

Poetry Editor for JackLeg Press.

Presenter at the 36th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest: "Writers Who Teach, Teachers Who Write"

Collaborative sonnet co-written with Dean Rader in New Poetry from the Midwest 2019

2020

Recipient of a 2020 Lewis Faculty Scholar Award

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, appear in The Journal, Pleiades, Hypertext Magazine, Los Angeles ReviewBennington Review, EcotoneSpoon River Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The West Review

2019

Recipient of a 2019 Illinois Arts Council Finalist Award in Poetry

Interview “Revision is part of the art” in Kenyon Review by Kristina Marie Darling

Reading at the Poetry Foundation for The Eloquent Poem: 128 Contemporary Poems and Their Making Book Launch on May 23rd, 2019

In Newcity's LIT 50 2019: Who Really Books In Chicago 

Reading at the Poetry Foundation for their Open Door Series and introducing Zakiya Cowan on December 17th, 2019 

A guest editor, with Dean Rader, for the June issue of underbelly run by Maya Marshall and Marty McConnell

Collaborative poems, co-written with Jackie K. White, appear in Posit, Isthmus

Flash fiction piece "Wild Roses, Red Feathers" in The Field Guide to Evil (Mondo, 2019)

2018
A guest editor for The Baltic Writing Residency's new lit journal Action, Spectacle

 

“Portrait as Landscape: Not the Fox,” co-written with Jackie K. White, in the Cincinnati Review

 

Keynote Speaker for St. Francis Writers' Conference. November 2018 

 

Creator and organizer of the Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & CocktailsA reading series offered the third Sunday of every month at Hungry Brain in Chicago. Co-hosted with Kenyatta Rogers.

 

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, co-edited with Dean RaderSally Ashton, and Jackie K. White  (Black Lawrence Press, 2018)

 

Northwestern's Summer Writing Conference Keynote Reading and Discussion
"From Singular to Shared: the Combined Mind of Collaborative Writing" 
with Anne-Marie Akin, Laura Jones, Christine Pacyk, & Virginia Smith Rice.

 

In Newcity's LIT 50 2018: Who Really Books In Chicago

 

Appear in the documentary film, The Fitting Room, directed by Leonardo Fallucca and Muamer Celik and featuring poets Angela Jackson, Nate Marshall, Reginald Gibbons, and Camila Ruiz. Screening: Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 7:00 PM at The Poetry Foundation. 

 

Two collaborative sonnets, written with Dean Rader, in American Poetry Review


2017

Suture (aka Frankenstein Sonnets), co-written with Dean Rader, AVAILABLE now from Black Lawrence Press
 

Senior Poetry Editor for Tupelo Quarterly
 

2016

Edelstein-Keller Visiting Writer Series, University of Minnesota, Oct 5th

 

AWP: "I Got You Babe: The Dis(Harmonies) of Collaboration," March 31st

 

Visiting Writer at Vermont Studio Center, March 3rd

 

Pop-Up Poetry Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan 6th

 

Orange Crush: LUNA LUNA’s Best Books of the Past 10 Years

 

The Cloudy House Interview on Wolf Centos and Trace

 

Boston ReviewWolf Centos Micro review

 

Harvard ReviewWolf Centos Review

 

The Economy Interview on Suture (aka Frankenstein Sonnets)

 

New collaborative sonnets, co-written with Dean Rader,  appear in New American WritingZyzzyvaBlackbirdKettle Blue ReviewFifth Wednesday JournalLikestarlingsPOOLColumbia Poetry ReviewDMQ ReviewThe EconomyCoal Hill Review, and LUNA LUNA.

 

2015

Illinois Featured Poet

 

Black Lawrence Press National Poetry Month Spotlight

 

Recipient of a 2015 Lewis Faculty Scholar Award

 

2014

Recipient of The 2014 Helen Coburn Meier and Tim Meier Charitable Foundation for the Arts Achievement Award, recognized for innovation, past achievements, and community contributions

 

Kansas City Star names Wolf Centos one of the 100 best books of 2014

 

Wolf Centos makes Newcity’s Top 5 of Everything 2014: Lit

 

Trace, recipient of the Black River Chapbook Prize from Black Lawrence Press, is available for purchase

 

Poems appear in Boston ReviewAcademy of American PoetsIndiana ReviewBellingham ReviewFour Way ReviewA Public SpaceGulf CoastSalt HillAnother Chicago MagazineCatch UpFifth Wednesday Journal, The Laurel ReviewMid-American ReviewNewfound Journal, Quarterly WestWhiskey Island, and Escape Into Life.

 

2013 and before

Recipient of a 2013 NEA Fellowship in Poetry

 

Recipient of a 2013 Yaddo Writers Residency

 

Recipient of 2011 and  2012 Vermont Studio Center Fellowships

 

Guest Editor for the Fall 2012 Issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal

 

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For readings and poetry requests (and horror film recommendations), please email me: Simone@SimoneMuench.com

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