His fiction, poetry and nonfiction work has been nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, and has appeared in numerous journals, including The Adirondack Review, Cimarron Review, Concrete Wolf, Iowa Review, Plainsongs and Sycamore Review. His first book of poems, Human Resources, was released by Inkbrush Press in February 2011. Jesse is also director of Bowers Writers House, an interdisciplinary venue at Elizabethtown College.