Jules Jacob

Poet

Springfield, MO
Missouri US
Email: 
jules@julesjacob.com
Website: 
julesjacob.com
Twitter/X: 
@https://twitter.com/juliejulesjacob
RSS feed: 
julesjacob.com

Author's Bio

Jules Jacob is the author of Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, October 2023), The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in the New Womens Voices Series (Finishing Line Press), and co-author with Sonja Johanson of Rappaccini's Garden (White Stag Press, forthcoming Summer 2024). Her poems are featured in Lily Poetry Review, Plume Poetry, Rust + Moth, The Westchester Review, and elsewhere. Jules is the recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France and can be found at http://julesjacob.com.

Writers Retreats: 
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Lily Poetry Review (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023)
,
Mid/South Sonnets (Belle Point Press, 2023)
,
Mom Egg Review 18 (Halfshelf press, 2020)
,
Plume Poetry 8 (Canisy Press, 2020)
,
Plume Poetry 8 (Plume, 2020)
,
The Binnacle Twelfth Annual Ultra-Short Competition (University of Maine at Machias, 2015)
,
The Binnacle Eleventh Annual Ultra-Short Competition (University of Maine at Machias, 2014)
,
The Binnacle Tenth Annual Ultra-Short Competition (University of Maine at Machias, 2013)
,
The Binnacle Eighth Annual Ultra-Short Competition (University of Maine at Machias, 2008)
Book:
Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2023)
Chapbook:
The Glass Sponge (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
Journals:
Burntdistrict
,
Byline
,
Camroc Press Review
,
Delirious Hem
,
Four and Twenty
,
Fourth River
,
Frogpond
,
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
,
Grey Sparrow Journal
,
Hare's Paw
,
Lily Poetry Review
,
Lines + Stars
,
Mom Egg Review
,
Paper Nautilus
,
Pittsburgh Poetry Review
,
Plume
,
Progenitor Art and Literary Journal
,
Rappahannock Review
,
Rust + Moth
,
Rust and Moth
,
Still
,
SWWIM Every Day
,
The Tishman Review
,
Third Wednesday
,
Thirteen Myna Birds
,
Tishman Review
,
Watershed Review
,
West Trestle Review
,
Westchester Review
,
Writer's Gazette
,
Yes, Poetry
Prizes won: 

Poetry:

2020: Chapbook Rappaccini's Garden Second Place Heartland Review Chapbook Contest

2019: Chapbook Rappaccini's Garden Named Finalist In Vella Chapbook Contest

2019: Rappaccini's Garden awarded Honorable Mention in Concrete Wolf Poetry Prize

2015: Honorable Mention Twelfth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition

2014: Honorable Mention in Eleventh Annual International Ultra-Short Competition

2012 The Glass Sponge Chapbook semi-finalist New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assasin by Terrance Hays , The Overstory by Richard Powers, Another Kind of Eden by James Lee Burke, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants by Nelson, Shih and Balick, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Lily Poetry Review Issue 9 by Selected Poets

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
German American, Norwegian American, Russian American, Scotch-Irish American, Swedish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Sterling, CO
Colorado
Raised in: 
Littleton, CO
Colorado
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Last update: Feb 03, 2024