Jacob Butlett is a three-time Pushcart Prize- and one-time Best of the Net-nominated poet with an A.A. in Liberal Arts and a B.A. in Creative Writing.
His creative works have been published in many journals, including The Hollins Critic, The MacGuffin, Lunch Ticket, Into the Void, and Plain China.
In 2017 Jacob won the Bauerly-Roseliep Scholarship for academic and literary excellence. In 2019 he was a finalist in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards residency competition.
An English instructor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he is pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing.
AN ABRIDGED LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
--> Jacob holds an Associates of Arts degree from Northeast Iowa Community College and a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from Loras College.
--> Jacob worked as an English tutor at NICC before he transferred to Loras College, where he continued to tutor. During his final year at Loras, he worked at Catfish Creek (literary journal) as the poetry editor and at The Limestone Review (literary journal) as a submission reader.
--> Jacob received a Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Gold Key for fiction, the Bauerly-Roseliep Scholarship for excellence in literary studies and creative writing, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a 2021 Best of the Net nomination.
-->In 2019, he was selected as a finalist in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards residency competition.
--> The Shallows selected Jacob's short story "Lawn Gnomes on Spikes" as Editor's Favorite, Free Lit Magazine selected his short story "Something to Prove" as a Feature, and Panoplyzine selected his poem "The Hail" as Editors' Choice.
--> Jacob worked as an English tutor at NICC before he transferred to Loras College, where he continued to tutor. During his final year at Loras, he worked at Catfish Creek (literary journal) as the poetry editor and at The Limestone Review (literary journal) as a submission reader.
--> Jacob received a Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Gold Key for fiction, the Bauerly-Roseliep Scholarship for excellence in literary studies and creative writing, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a 2021 Best of the Net nomination.
-->In 2019, he was selected as a finalist in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards residency competition.
--> The Shallows selected Jacob's short story "Lawn Gnomes on Spikes" as Editor's Favorite, Free Lit Magazine selected his short story "Something to Prove" as a Feature, and Panoplyzine selected his poem "The Hail" as Editors' Choice.
