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Jessica Jacobs

Jessica Jacobs is also the author of 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. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in publications including Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Orion, and Guernica. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, editor, and professorand is now the Associate Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives, with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown in Asheville, North Carolina.

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