Simone Muench is the author of six books, including Wolf Centos and Orange Crush, both from Sarabande. Her recent collection Suture, from Black Lawrence, includes sonnets written with Dean Rader. She is an editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, published by Black Lawrence, and creator of the HB Sunday Reading Series in Chicago. She serves as a faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review and as a senior poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly.