Simone Muench is a recipient of an NEA fellowship and author of several books, including Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande; winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize) and Wolf Centos (Sarabande). She’s an editor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018) and serves as a poetry editor for Tupelo Quarterly, advisor for Jet Fuel Review, poetry editor for JackLeg Press, and founder of the HB Sunday Reading Series.
Jackie K. White is the author of three previous chapbooks and the co-author, with Simone Muench, of Hex & Howl (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Professor Emerita at Lewis University, her poems, translations, and collaborative poems have appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Hypertext, Pleiades, and Shenandoah.