Jake Rose is a poet, artist, and educator living in California’s Central Valley. Rose teaches at the University of California, Davis, and has published poems in West Branch, The Seventh Wave, and Adult Groceries, among other journals. Other projects include The Art of the Death, a book-length erasure poem; Spectropoetics, a GPS-based project in interspecies writing; and The Month Books, a series of handmade chapbooks exploring ritual, place, and hybrid form.