Jessica Jacobs

Awards & Recognitions

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

• One of Library Journal‘s Best Poetry Books of 2019 
• Winner, Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry, Southern Illinois University
• Winner, Goldie Award in Poetry, Golden Crown Literary Society
• Shortlist Finalist, Julie Suk Award, Jacar Press
• Finalist, American Fiction Award in Poetry, American Book Fest
• Honorable Mention, Brockman-Campbell Book Award, North Carolina Poetry Society

Pelvis with Distance

• Winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in Poetry
• An Over the Rainbow selection by the American Library Association
• Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry
• Longlist finalist for the Julie Suk Award

Coverage

Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going

• Mountain Xpress, “Every Poem is a Love Poem: Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, and Melissa Crowe Launch New Poetry Collections”
• Poem of the Week feature

Pelvis with Distance

• The Advocate, “The 30 Best Books You Missed in 2015”
• Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC
• WUKY: NPR, “Bookmarks,” Lexington, KY

Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry

• “Something wonderful is happening in the world of Jewish poetry,” Aviya Kushner (Forward), August 2023
• “Spotlight On: Yetzirah,” Emma Castleberry (The Laurel of Asheville), April 2023

Video

• Alaska Quarterly Review reading of poems from unalone

• College of Southern Maryland, with Nickole Brown (Jessica reads from In Whatever Light Left to Us before Nickole reads, then reads new poems after Nickole’s reading):

• Hendrix College, reading from Pelvis with Distance with Creative Writing faculty Hope Coulter and Tyrone Jaeger (Jessica’s reading begins at 43:00):