Bio: Simone Muench is an associate editor for ACM. She was raised in Benson, Louisiana, and the Ozark Mountains in Combs, Arkansas, before moving to Colorado to receive her B.A. and M.A. She has poems forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Indiana Review, River City and Samizdat. She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and has recently won the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, and the Poetry Center’s 9th Annual Juried Reading. She was also named Listeners’ Choice in the WBEZ Illinois Poet Laureate Contest. Her book The Air Lost in Breathing received the Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry and was published by Helicon Nine Editions in 2000. Notebook. Knife. Mentholatum., a chapbook, was released by New Michigan Press in 2003. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at Lewis University as well as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Chicago.