Orange Crush

* Stunning, unsentimental retelling of women's history that should appeal to feminist readers * Arresting cover art by Yves Tanguy * Muench's poem "Her dreaming feet" won the Bright Lights contest in 2008, which included a reading in Times Square * Muench is a truly up-an-coming poet; recently was a recipient of the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry, the PSA's Fine Lines Contest, the Charles Goodnow Award, the AWP Intro Journals Project Award, and the Poetry Center's 9th Annual Juried Reading Award * Muench has an incredibly strong presence in Chicago. She was the previous Poetry Editor at Another Chicago Magazine and has connections to the University of Illinois, Lewis University, and Switchback Books.