Jessica Jacobs' debut collection, Pelvis with Distance, won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, was an ALA Over the Rainbow selection, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Julie Suk Awards. She the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going and In Whatever Light Left to Us. Jacobs holds a B.A. from Smith College, and an M.F.A. from Purdue University, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Sycamore Review. Her work has appeared in Orion, New England Review, Crazyhorse, and Guernica. Jessica leads workshops around the country, and is Chapbook Editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives in Asheville, NC, with her wife, poet Nickole Brown.
