Jake Adam York is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (Southern Illinois University Press 2008), winner of the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry, and Persons Unknown, forthcoming from SIU Press in October 2010—as well as a work of literary history, The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Routledge 2005). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Third Coast, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Northwest Review, and DIAGRAM.

He is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where he collaborates with colleagues and students to produce the journal Copper Nickel. He also serves as a contributing editor for Shenandoah.