Jacob Schepers is a Midwest poet and the author of A Bundle of Careful Compromises (Outriders Poetry Project, 2014), the chapbook Connections & Choreography (Bottlecap Press, 2024), and the micro-chap Shipwreck Abstracted (Ghost City Press, 2024). He received his MFA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches in the University Writing Program. With Sara Judy, he edits the nonprofit literary journal ballast. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, with his wife and their four sons.
Books
Selected work
- Poetry
19
- Hybrid
1
from Ugly Ground Swell Moss
Dream Pop, 2017
How to Talk of Yesterday
Verse, 2012
A Game of Telephone Is All I'm After Here, Honest
SoFloPoJo - South Florida Poetry Journal , 2024
from Vasectomajestic
Pulp Lit Mag, 2025
Graft
The Mantle Poetry, 2023
from Vasectomajestic
antiphony, 2024
Graveside Pilgrim in Sackcloth and Lip Gloss
The Shore Poetry, 2024
Preening
Word For/ Word, 2023
Dissections
Heavy Feather Review, 2022
Triptych in Gendered Endings
The Indianapolis Review, 2023
It's Like I Feel Your Lips on My Lips
Anti-Heroin Chic, 2023
What I Want When I Want
DIALOGIST, 2023
Rose Constellation Index
Broken Lens Journal, 2024
Three Poems
Belt Magazine, 2024
When You Stop
Red Tree Review, 2024
Mere Mention
Jarfly, 2024
Geometry and Other Misnomers
Harpur Palate Literary Journal, 2024
from: Vasectomajestic
Hobart, 2025
A Tool Imposes Itself Upon Us To Use It
Psaltery & Lyre, 2024
Issue 25 — TRAMPOLINE
Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry, 2024