Simone Muench is a recipient of an NEA fellowship and the author of seven full-length books, including Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande; Kathryn A. Morton Prize), Wolf Centos (Sarabande), and The Under Hum (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), cowritten with Jackie K. White. Recent poems are in APR, Bennington Review, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, New Letters, and others.