Jacques J. Rancourt is currently a Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellow at Stanford University. His poems have appeared or will appear in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Narrative, and Indiana Review, among others. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is also the recipient of a 2011-2012 Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and a 2012 work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. He lives in Oakland, California.