Jake is the Library Director at Hawkins Memorial Library in La Porte City, IA. He is a 2024 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). He completed his MA in English with an emphasis in book history and a Certificate in Literary Publishing. Jake was the first graduate student to receive the Languages & Literatures English Fellowship at UNI. As the Fellow, Jake worked as the Assistant Editor of the North American Review from August 2022 through December 2023 and worked as an Instructor teaching College Writing & Research for the Spring 2024 semester.

Jake and his husband are currently working on their MLISs from the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science, working toward Academic, Archives, and Special Collections Librarianships. He lives in Waterloo with his husband and their four cats: Gaia, Odin, Orpheus, and Stella.