About
Jak
Jak holds a bachelor’s and a master's degree, both in English, from the “Harvard of the Panhandle,” Texas Tech University. There, Jak worked as both a graduate instructor of Introductory and Advanced College Composition and as an Associate Editor for Texas Tech’s award-winning graduate literary journal, Iron Horse Literary Review. Now, he teaches 9th-grade English in the DFW area and offers private reading and writing tutoring for grades 5-12.
A recent Best of the Net anthology nominee, Jak’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Roanoke Review, The Citron Review, Radar Poetry, Inklette, Chautauqua, The Dillydoun Review, and The Writer’s Foundry Review. In 2022, Jak was awarded both the Oustanding M.A. Instructor Award and The Emerging Writer Award by the Texas Tech English Department Faculty.
If not drowning in papers to grade, you can find Jak hiking in the New Mexican wilderness with his wife and dogs, playing guitar, or pretending to enjoy IPAs on a restaurant patio with friends.