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Extended Bio:
Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books, 2019), one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year, winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell, American Fiction, and Julie Suk Book Awards; and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and the co-author of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/Penguin RandomHouse). She received her BA at Smith College and her MFA in Poetry at Purdue University. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including Orion, New England Review, The Writers Chronicle, Ploughshares, and Image. She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, the only national literary organization whose mission is to support Jewish poets and Jewish poetry.
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Jessica Jacobs is the author of unalone, poems in conversation with Genesis (Four Way Books, March 2024); Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books, 2019), one of Library Journal’s Best Poetry Books of the Year and winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards; and Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), winner of the New Mexico Book Award and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and is the co-author of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/Penguin RandomHouse, 2020). Jessica is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.
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Jessica Jacobs’ third collection unalone, poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis, was published this March by Four Way Books. Winner of the New Mexico Book Award and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Jessica is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.