Jacques J. Rancourt was raised in Maine. His poems have appeared or will appear in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets 2014, among other places. He has received a Wallace Stegner fellowship from Stanford University, a Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a residency from the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in Oakland, California.