Jason Adam Sheets

Jason Adam Sheets comes from a lineage of Appalachian musicians, songwriters, poets, and preachers. He earned a Master of Theological Studies in Theopoetics from Harvard Divinity School, where he recently served 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 (AGP, 2025), A Madness of Blue Obsidian (AGP, 2022), The Hour Wasp (AGP, 2017), and Theopoetica: An Anthology (AGP, 2022). New poems have appeared in and will appear in POETRY (March, 2024, and forthcoming 2026) and Modern Language Studies (winter, 2025). A Pushcart Prize nominee, his writing was recently featured in Harvard Magazine and by Oxford University’s Research Centre in the Humanities. He teaches for Poetry in America, in affiliation with the eponymous PBS television series and in conjunction with the National Education Opportunity Network, and has worked as a writing and publishing mentor for AWP’s Writer to Writer mentorship program. His work has been supported by Harvard University, PEN America, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Mass Cultural Council.