Rodney Jack served as a yeoman in the United States Navy before earning an MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was a Holden Minority Scholar. He has also been a Peter Mayer Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and received a writer's grant from the PEN American Center. Over the past decade his work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry, which awarded him the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize.  

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