Jason Adam Sheets holds a Master of Theological Studies in Theopoetics from Harvard Divinity School, where he serves as a Teaching Fellow. His research focuses on how poetic language works to evoke religious experience. Sheets’ commitment to the field can be seen in his work as a poet and essayist. Books include V Verse Is I (forthcoming, 2025), A Madness of Blue Obsidian (AGP, 2022), The Hour Wasp (AGP, 2017), and Theopoetica: An Anthology (AGP, 2022). New poems appear in POETRY (March 2024) and Modern Language Studies (forthcoming, 2025). A Pushcart Prize nominee, his writing was recently featured in Harvard Magazine and by Oxford University’s Research Centre in the Humanities. Along with teaching for Poetry in America, Sheets has also worked as a writing and publishing mentor for AWP’s Writer to Writer mentorship program and has taught English at the University of New Hampshire. His work has been supported by Harvard University, PEN America, and Poets & Writers Magazine.