Jules Jacob

Poet

Centennial, CO
Colorado US
Email: 
jules@julesjacob.com
Website: 
julesjacob.com
Twitter/X: 
@https://twitter.com/juliejulesjacob
RSS feed: 
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Author's Bio

Jules Jacob is the author of three collections including Rappaccini’s Garden (White Stag Publishing 2024), an illustrated collection co-authored with Sonja Johanson, and Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books 2023). Poems, interviews, reviews, and/or critical commentary of the author’s work appear in Plume, Tupelo Quarterly, Lily Poetry Review, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox, CALYX, Colorado Poets Center, and elsewhere. Jules’ work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in France and other organizations. She lives in Arapahoe County, Colorado on unceded Arapaho lands.

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)
Books:
Rappaccini's Garden (White Stag Publishing, 2024)
,
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
,
Slant: A Journal of Poetry
,
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: 
Cloud Missives: Poems by Kenzie Allen, The Antidote by Karen Russell, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T Wurth, Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants by Nelson, Shih and Balick, A Botanist's Dictionary by Susan K Pell Bobbi Angell, Lily Poetry Review Issue 9 by Selected Poets

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Danish, European, German American, Scotch-Irish 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: Apr 10, 2026