Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American poet and prose writer. He is the author of In The Absence of Clocks and Paraíso. Jacob is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Provincetown, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a Lannan Literary fellowship. His work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and The Academy of American Poets, among others.