Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 10am

Simone Muench is the recipient of an NEA Poetry Fellowship; the 2023 Lewis University Career Scholarship Award; a 2023 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, and the Meier Foundation for the Arts Award. She is the author of seven full-length books including The Under Hum, cowritten with Jackie K. White, (Black Lawrence Press, May 2024). She is the creator of the Hungry Brain Sunday Reading Series that she co-hosts with Kenyatta Rogers. She serves as poetry editor for JackLeg Press, a poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, and faculty advisor for Jet Fuel Review.