Simone Muench is the director of the Writing Program at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. She is the author of The Air Lost in Breathing (Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande, 2005), Orange Crush (Sarabande, 2010), Disappearing Address (a collaboration of epistolary poems co-written with Philip Jenks, BlazeVOX Books, 2010), and Wolf Centos (Sarabande, 2014).