Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going (Four Way Books, 2019) 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. 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 Orion, New England Review, The Missouri Review, Crazyhorse, and the Oxford American. An avid long-distance runner, Jessica has worked as a rock climbing instructor, bartender, editor, and professor, and is now the Associate Editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown.

Other poems by Jessica Jacobs in Verse Daily:
March 30, 2017:   "In the Patio IV (Black Door)" "Carried inside me..."
December 16, 2014:   "July 13, 1946" "It is difficult on Sundays..."

Books by Jessica Jacobs:

Other poems on the web by Jessica Jacobs:
"Stridulation Sonnet"
"Stridulation Sonnet"
"In The First Fall of Our Marriage"
Three poems
"he Double Image"
"13th Birthday and Something Said to Wake Early"
Three poems

Jessica Jacobs's Website.

Jessica Jacobs on Twitter.

About Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going:

"I'm totally certain Jessica Jacobs' book is going to save someone's life. Probably more than one person, but I'm thinking of the one person who, like me when I was first coming out, needed a book like this so much. Like Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death and the Changing of the Seasons and Minnie Bruce Pratt's S/He before it, Jacobs' poetry collection/memoir-in-verse tells of love and everyday life in a way everyone deserves to hear about but many of us never do. Yes, the world is wider than it was when I was 16 and dying for a book like this, but there's still so much work to do and so many stories that need to be told. This book would have helped me know it doesn't necessarily 'get better' but it sure can get great in unimaginable ways. It would have helped me envision new ways to be alive. An honest, activist, real world dream of a book. A treasure."
—Gabrielle Calvocoressi

"All great love stories deserve to be written down for history's sake. With Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, Jessica Jacobs gives us an intimate, sensual, desirous book full of real life hardships and an epic love story of surrender and survival. Rooted in landscape and written with a rich lyrical line, these gorgeous poems pay necessary homage to what truly matters."
—Ada Limón

"From the murky waters of Florida to a rolling blackout in New York City to the windblown fields of the Midwest, Jessica Jacobs refuses to 'confine our darkness to the dark,' expertly illuminating the mysterious topographies of love, desire, and longing. Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going is a collection whose title suggest—and whose pages deliver—and evocative journey. Though, by the time you're done, you'll likely want to stay right where you are: in the vision of this gifted poet, in the glow of these stunning poems."
—Matthew Olzmann