Jake Rose is the author of JOAN, winner of the 2026 Phoenix Emerging Poets Book Prize, forthcoming in March, 2026. A poet, artist, and educator living in California’s Central Valley, Rose teaches at the University of California, Davis, and has work published or forthcoming in West Branch, The Seventh Wave, Foglifter, Coach House Books, and elsewhere. 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.