Jake Rose is a poet and artist living in California’s Central Valley. They are the author of JOAN, winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foglifter, Alta, Coach House Books, and elsewhere, and has been supported by the Headlands Center for the Arts and other residencies. Rose teaches at the University of California, Davis and coedits the literary magazine Vers.

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