Jessica Jacobs is the author of the poetry collections Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2019; and Pelvis with Distance, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O'Keeffe, which won the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. She lives in Asheville, NC, with her wife, the poet Nickole Brown, and is at work on a collection of essays exploring spirituality, her Jewish heritage, and time.