Monday @ KGB: Sandra Simonds & Amy Lemmon

Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini
(Bloof Books, 2009) and several chapbooks–Tomorrow’s Bright Bracelets
(forthcoming, Kitchen Press), The Pyrotechnics of Madame Trotter
(forthcoming, Coconut), Bananas and Spiders (forthcoming, H_NGM_N), A
Teeny Tiny Book of War (Teeny Tiny, 2008), The Humble Travelogues of Mr.
Ian Worthington (Cy Gist, 2007) and The Tar Pit Diatoms (Otoliths,
2006)–as well as the founder of Wildlife, an experimental, handmade
poetry magazine. She earned a BA in English and Psychology from UCLA and an MFA
from the University of Montana. She is currently a PhD student in Creative
Writing at Florida State University. For more information, visit her blog at ssandrasimonds.blogspot.com.

 Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review
Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red
Hen Press, 2008). Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New
Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem
"Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of
Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist
Amber McMillan) by the Center for
Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century
British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by
Red Hen Press. Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in
collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson
Literary Review, and at lafovea.org.
She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org. Amy holds a PhD in
English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati
and is Assistant Chair of the English and
Speech Department at the Fashion
Institute of Technology in New York City.