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Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago. She is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (2000 Marianne Moore Prize) and Lampblack & Ash (2004 Kathryn A. Morton Prize). She received her Ph.D from the University of Illinois-Chicago and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University and an editor for Sharkforum.

Poetry, American Poet, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times Book Review (covered her previous book), Booklist, Diagram, Rain Taxi, Denver Quarterly, Time Out Chicago, Iowa Review, Barn Owl Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Ecotone, POOL, Boston Reivew, Midwest Book Review