Jacob Schepers is the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project 2014). His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Heavy Feather Review, Midway Journal, A-Minor, PANK, Verse, The Common, Burning House Press, the BlazeVOX anthology My Next Heart (2017) and elsewhere. His reviews and critical writing have appeared in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Entropy, The Fanzine, and Tupelo Quarterly. He holds an MFA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame where he teaches in the University Writing Program. With Sara Judy, he edits ballast, a journal of poetry and poetics, at www.ballastjournal.com [2].