Jacob Schepers is the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project 2014). His manuscript Colder Country is a two-time finalist for the Antivenom Poetry Prize as well as the Annual Poetry Award from Elixir Press. His poems and reviews have appeared in such places as Verse, Midway Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, The Fanzine, Entropy, Heavy Feather Review, Burning House Press, The Destroyer, and elsewhere. With Sara Judy he edits the journal ballast, and he teaches at the University of Notre Dame. www.jacobschepers.com and @JacobSchepers.