JACOB R.

BUTLETT
4007 Mount Vail Ridge Dubuque, IA 52001 Phone: 563.564.2480

Personal Email
subsjacobbutlett@gmail.com
Work & Academic Email
Jacob.Butlett@siu.edu
Professional Website
<www.jacobbutlettacademicreflection.weebly.com>

QUALIFICATIONS
 One year’s experience as a composition instructor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
(Carbondale, IL)
 Three years’ experience as a writing tutor at Loras College (Dubuque, IA)
 Two years’ experience as a writing tutor at Northeast Iowa Community College (Peosta, IA)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
COMPOSITION INSTRUCTOR
*Southern Illinois University Carbondale | Fall 2020 to Spring 2022
 Critiqued and graded student essays using MyCourses
 Encouraged students to value writing as a form of personal and professional responsibility

POETRY EDITOR |Catfish Creek

*Loras College | Fall 2016 to summer 2017
 Attended editorial meetings to discuss current submissions and assess team progress
 Solicited undergraduate schools for potential submissions

WRITING TUTOR
*Loras College | Fall 2015 to summer 2017
*NICC | Fall 2012 to summer 2014
 Analyzed and critiqued college students’ essays and PowerPoints
 Taught students about the process of writing, generating ideas, supporting arguments with
evidence, and the mechanics of Standard English

COLLEGE EDUCATION
SOUTHERN ILLINOUS UNIVERSITY CARBDONALE | FALL 2020 TO
SPRING 2023
 Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing Major GPA: 4.0

LORAS COLLEGE | SPRING 2014 TO SPRING 2017

 Bachelor of Arts in English, Creative Writing Major. GPA: 3.9

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NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | FALL 2012 TO SUMMER
2014, THEN SUMMER 2018
 Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts (General Studies). GPA: 3.9

REFERENCES
 James Pollock
 Professor of English
 Loras College
 1450 Alta Vista Street
 Dubuque, Iowa 52001
 James.Pollock@loras.edu
 Professor of poetry and former academic advisor
 Kevin Koch
 Professor of English
 Loras College
 1450 Alta Vista Street
 Dubuque, Iowa 52001
 Kevin.Koch@loras.edu
 Professor of creative nonfiction and former academic advisor
 Naomi Clark
 Professor of English
 Loras College
 1450 Alta Vista Street
 Dubuque, Iowa 52001
 Naomi.Clark@loras.edu
 Professor of rhetoric and Loras College Writing Center supervisor

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Earned several literary achievements from several journals such as the following:
o Panoply selected my poem The Hail as Editors’ Choice and nominated my poem for a
Pushcart Prize; Gnashing Teeth Publishing nominated my poem After the Storm for a
Pushcart Prize; The Hollins Critic nominated my poem Posing with a Giraffe for a Pushcart
Prize
o Better Than Starbucks selected my haiku cold black skillet, sunlit maple trees—, rehearsing
their elegy, summer morning—, potted plant in the park—, and her shiny little stove as
Editor’s Choice and Features;
o The Shallows selected my short story Lawn Gnomes on Spikes as Editor’s Favorite; and
o Free Lit Magazine selected my short story Something to Prove as a Feature
 Became a finalist in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards residency competition of 2019
 Won the Loras College Bauerly-Roseliep Scholarship, given to the top graduating English major
at Loras College
 Received the Dean’s Top 20 Academic Award at Loras College
 Gained membership into Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
 Achieved a spot on the Dean’s List every semester at NICC
 Nominated for Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

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  Won a Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Gold Key award for literary excellence

PRESENTATIONS
LEGACY SYMPOSIUM & STREAMLINES CONFERENCE
 Presented my scholarly essay The Darkness of Robert Frost at the 2015 Legacy Symposium and
a batch of poems at the 2016 Legacy Symposium (Dubuque, IA)
 Presented my short story Midnight Calling at the 2015 Streamlines conference and my poem
Danse Macabre of Black Holes at the 2016 Streamlines conference (Dubuque, IA)

PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING WORKS

POEMS
The Hail and The Hobo published in Panoply
After the Storm published in Gnashing Teeth Publishing
Posing with a Giraffe published in The Hollins Critic
Thinking About Suicide During a Countryside Walk forthcoming in Volney Road Review
One Summer Night and Dream published in the McKinley Review
Pyramid Paperweight and Winter Grave published in Word Fountain
aftermath published in Street Light Press
Danse Macabre of Black Holes, Dress Shoes in an Alleyway, and The First Draft published in
The Limestone Review
Man Praising the Sea published in Outrageous Fortune
As You’re Thinking of Me published in Epigraph Magazine
Ode to Gay Men and On a Prairie at Sunrise published in Picaroon Poetry
A Child Etched on a Stone published in Three Drops from a Cauldron
Grandfather published in Varnish: A Journal of Arts and Letters
my cheating ex-boyfriend published in Tilde: A Literary Journal
Dress Shoes in an Alleyway reprinted in plain china
Aspiring Gay Poet published in Cacti Fur
Forgetting is a burden to those who must never forget published in Free Lit Magazine
Love Can Only Do So Much and When Snow White Refused to Wash the Dishes published in
Ghost City Review
In a Graveyard at Sunrise published in Anti-Heroin Chic
Your Potential, Sacrament, The Zen of Sweeping the Floor, and Phoenix published in Rabid Oak
Walls published in The Phoenix
cold black skillet, sunlit maple trees—, rehearsing their elegy, summer morning—, potted
plant in the park—, and her shiny little stove published in Better Than Starbucks
Where the Dead Live published in COUNTERCLOCK
Casting Shadows forthcoming in The Festival Review
The Vow published in Door Is A Jar
Bestiary published in Spire Light: A Journal of Creative Expression
Paper Towel Roll and Clutching Our Wrists published in South Broadway Ghost Society
Thinking about Sex on a Sunday Night published in Rat’s Ass Review
Imagine forthcoming in The Henniker Review
Silly Gay Aubade forthcoming in My Loves: A Digital Anthology

SHORT STORIES
Wombango published in The MacGuffin

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 The Threshold of the Sun published in Lunch Ticket
The Clearing in the Sky published in Into the Void
Orange Bowler and Camp Bur Oak published in Fterota Logia
The Squirrel Story published in Gone Lawn
The Keeper of the Cane published in The Telegraph Herald
Midnight Calling, The Calf, and Wynona published in The Limestone Review
Something to Prove and Renovations published in Free Lit Magazine
Waltzing in Crimson Light published in The Phoenix
Blackwater Falls published in Cold Creek Review
Opens Spaces published in Oratoria

CREATIVE NONFICTION ESSAYS

Muddy Expanse of Annihilating Water published in The Shallows
A Rapturous Imagine: Butterflies and Language in a Masquerade published in Wilderness
House Literary Review and reprinted in The Limestone Review

SCHOLARLY ESSAY
One Way to Read Poetry: Applying Scholes’ Approach to “The Unlived Life” published in The
Limestone Review