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
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Located approximately halfway between Mansfield and Converse on the Kansas City Southern Railroad
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and also Arkansas.
[Chicago Magazine, July 200]
Chicago Magazine
/ref> She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Colorado
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in Boulder
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In c ...
, received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois
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at Chicago and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University
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in Romeoville
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.
Sarabande
2005), and ''Orange Crush'' (Sarabande, 2010), ''Disappearing Address'', a collaboration of epistolary poems co-written with Philip Jenks (BlazeVOX Books
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, 2010), and the upcoming ''Wolf Centos'' (Sarabande, 2014).[Muench named to New City’s top 50 published writers list]
/ref> Her chapbook
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''Trace'' received the Black River Chapbook Award and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2014.[Wolf Cento - Tirage Monthly]
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Awards and achievements
* NEA Fellowship for Poetry : 2013
* New City's Lit 50 “Who Really Books in Chicago” 2014 list : 2014
September 2010 issue of ''The Believer''
* Chief Faculty Advisor for ''Jet Fuel Review''
* Lewis Faculty Scholar Award : 2013
* Kentucky Women Writers Conference : 2010
* Illinois Arts Council Fellowships : 2009
* Recipient of the PSA's Bright Lights/Big Verse Contest with a featured reading in Times Square;2008 Winners - Poetry Society of America
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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/
* https://archive.today/20140709200455/http://www.sarabandebooks.org/new-forthcoming/wolf-centos-simone-muench-1
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American poets
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
American women poets
21st-century American women writers