Biography
Dave Jilk is author of the epic poem Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga (2024), winner of the 2025 Colorado Authors League Award for Science Fiction. He has published three collections of lyric and narrative poetry: Expedition and Other Poems (2025), Distilled Moments (2020), and Rejuvenilia (2018). His poetry has appeared in Consilience, Expansive Poetry Online, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Society of Classical Poets, and The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry. He is also co-author of The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors (2021), a finalist for the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction. Dave earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from MIT, and currently lives near Boulder, Colorado. When not writing, he is likely to be marching on a mountain or standing in a stream.
