The Past Tense

Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books, 2021); Novena (Pleiades Press, 2017), winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize; and a chapbook, In the Time of PrEP (Chad Walsh Chapbook Series, Beloit Poetry Journal, 2018). He has held poetry fellowships and residencies from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Raised in Maine, he lives in San Francisco.