Simone Muench is a recipient of an NEA fellowship and the author of seven full-length books, including Lampblack & Ash (Sarabande; winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize), Wolf Centos (Sarabande), and The Under Hum, cowritten with Jackie K. White (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). She and Jackie have poems forthcoming in swamp pink, North American Review, phoebe, and Missouri Review.

Jackie K. White is the co-author, with Simone Muench, of Hex & Howl (Black Lawrence Press, 2021; Society of Midland Authors Honoree) and The Under Hum (Black Lawrence Press, 2024). Her collaborations have appeared in APR, Bennington Review, Ecotone, Hopkins Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, NELLE, and others.

Other poems on the web by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White:
"Pressed"
"Self-Portrait Lined by Mina Loy"
"Portrait as Landscape: Not the Fox"
"Glaze"
Three poems
"Queue"
"Self-Portrait Lined by Tomas Tranströmer"
"Dismantling"

Simone Muench's Website.

About The Under Hum:

"What happens when two women write self-portraits 'lined' by famous writers? The answer lies in the collaborative magic of Simone Muench and Jackie K. White's The Under Hum, a gorgeous panoply of golden shovels, centos, and tangy tercets to make you love poetry again as a celebration of the thrills and surprises of language. 'We are a strange syntax that cannot be mapped,' say the poets. And we were happy getting lost in their 'Portrait as Landscape' sonnets, the sublime terrain constantly shifting and blooming with music metaphor, 'with mirrors and seasons. . .stuck between no way and anyhow,' reminding us in the best possible way that 'everything human is made up' and, in The Under Hum, we get to take pleasure in the result."
—Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton

"Collaboration means creation. These poems expand from that natural cycle of visionary poetry, that invites more than one poet to get involved with the poems, until language itself becomes a complete process of imagination and meaning. The result is a book that shares a complex world with the reader and proves that true poetry does not leave anyone alone. "
—Ray Gonzalez

"The Under Hum is a spectacle of poetic collaboration. From the poets Simone Muench and Jackie K. White comes a collaborative collection of poems in various poetic forms from perspectives and lines from a wide range of authorial references. The book is almost operatic in its show of virtuosities both present and historic. . . This book delivers!"
—Ed Roberson