Jessica Jacobs

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Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going (Four Way Books, 2019), one of Library Journal's best collections 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. Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, she lives in Asheville, NC, with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown, with whom she co-authored Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/ PenguinRandomHouse). unalone, her collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis will be out from Four Way Books in 2024. She is the founder of Yetzirah, the first national literary organization for Jewish poets.

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