Jake Rose is a poet and artist living in California’s Central Valley. They are the author of JOAN, winner of the 2026 Phoenix Emerging Poets Book Prize, published by The University of Chicago Press, and longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award in Poetry. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets, Foglifter, Alta, Coach House Books, and elsewhere. Rose teaches at UC Davis and coedits the literary magazine Vers. Other literary works include The Art of the Death, a book-length erasure poem; Spectropoetics, a location-based series of interspecies writing; and The Month Books, a collection of handmade chapbooks exploring chronic illness and hybrid form.