Simone Muench | |
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 Simone Muench, 2014 | |
| Occupation | Professor of Creative Writing & Film Studies |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | Orange Crush, Wolf Centos, Lampblack & Ash, The Air Lost in Breathing, Disappearing Address. |
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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. [1] 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. [1]
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She is the author of five books: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), [2] Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), [3] and Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010), [4] Disappearing Address, a collaboration of epistolary poems co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX Books, 2010), [5] and the upcoming Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014). [6] Her chapbook Trace received the Black River Chapbook Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014. [7]
