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Jessica Jacobs
PUBLISHED WORK
Poetry“Tapering,” Calyx, Winter 2013(forthcoming)“Composing Ourselves,” Overplay/Underdone: An Anthology of Poetry in the Third Dimension (Medusa’s
Laugh Press), December 2012 (forthcoming)“Primer,” Rattle, Summer 2012“Manhattan Bridge Bikeway, Up,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2012“Ten Country Miles, With Song,” The Los Angeles Review, February 2012“Grandmother Ornithology,” The Lumberyard , Summer 2011“After Office Dwelling,” Swink Magazine (online) , February 2011“Corner of Vanderbilt and Park,” Slice Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010“Easter on Mykonos,” & Review, July 2010“Persephone in Summer,” Cold-drill, Spring 2003“Carpenter’s Call to Dali’s Girl with Curls,” “This is Why,” “Hesitation,” Reactions (UK), Summer 2001
Essays/Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction“Amanda, You Know What I Want Back,” Chelsea, I Want My Flannel Back (online), February 2010
Reviews
“Just to act was the glorious thing: C.D. Wright’s One with Others,” Sycamore Review (online), February2011“Truth, Beauty, and Thomas Mann: The Quests and Questions of Michael Cunningham’s By Nightfall,”Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring 2011
Interviews
“An Interview with Michael Cunningham,” Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring 2013 (forthcoming)“Q&A: Chris Williamson,” musician interview, Curve Magazine, November 2001
Selected Journalism
“A Fighting Chance,” profile of cancer survivor Nancy Lanoue, Curve Magazine, February 2002“Three Months, Fifteen-Thousand Miles: Jessica Jacobs and Elizabeth Burden Take the UltimateRoadtrip,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 2000
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Writing Awards Academic Awards
Purdue University“Selections from After O’Keeffe,” Bud and Betty Knoll Award, Best of Contest, 2012
“Selections from After O’Keeffe,” Phi Beta Kappa Prize, Best Graduate Entry, 2012“Selections from After O’Keeffe,” Tom Andrews Clapping Award for a poetry sequence, First Place, 2012“Synecdoche: One,” Follett’s Prize for Poetry, First Place, 2011“Hunger,” Kneale Prize for Fiction, First Place, 2011
Smith College
The Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, Best Collection of Poems, 2002
The Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize, Best Collection of Poems, 2002“Mind the Gap,” Denis Johnson Playwriting Competition, Five-College Consortium, HonorableMention, 2000
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Other Awards
“The Balcony, 580 Split Fiction Contest, judged by Michelle Tea, Third Place, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 8/10 — presentCourses Taught
ENGL 420: Business WritingENGL 205: Introduction to Creative Writing, Poetry & Fiction (x3)ENGL 106LC: Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition for Business Leaders Learning CommunityENGL 106: Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition (x2)
Rock Climbing Instructor, various organizations, FL, MA, NY 8/96 — 8/10
Instructed children and adults in the arts of climbing safety, climbing techniques, and lead-climbing
Lead S.A.T. Verbal Trainer, Ivy West — Test Preparatory Service, San Mateo, CA 11/03 — 10/05
Led seminars for new tutors, taught classroom outreach programs, developed curricula
Instructional AwardsQuintilian Award for instructional excellence in Introductory Composition, given to top 10% of instructors based on student evaluations, Spring and Fall 2011
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Sycamore Review, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 12/10 — presentEditor-in-Chief
Increased number of subscribers from fewer than 100 to over 2,000
With Program Chair Porter Shreve, created ongoing Sycamore Writers/Editors-in-Residence positions
Create Sycamore’s first ecommerce site through close collaboration with Purdue business office
Inaugurated a Wabash Prize for Nonfiction and secured Mary Karr as judge Promoted journal and Wabash Prizes in all three genres in collaboration with Managing Editors
Conceptualized and managed the creation of digital and audio archives
Began paying all contributors; created and received approval of a payment scale for solicited writers
Managed and collaborated in website and blog redesign
Hired, managed, and maintained a staff of up to thirteen editors and interns
Designed, ordered, and laid out complete issues in Adobe InDesign
John Wiley & Sons, Higher Education, Hoboken, NJ
Freelance Consultant 9/09 — 8/10
Researched and created innovative business and product models for educational texts and programs
Senior Acquisitions Editor, Precalculus Mathematics & Statistics 1/07 — 8/09
Grew booklist from $4.5 million to $6.5 million in the domestic college market
Managed every aspect of a book ’s life-cycle: researching markets needs, signing authors,
forecasting and securing necessary funding, managing the development and production of textbooks
and their accompanying media packages, planning and running conferences, and traveling
extensively for the training and support of Wiley’s international sales staff
Designated as mentor for Assistant and Associate Editors
Thomson Higher Education
Sales Representative, New York, NY 1/06 — 12/06
Increased overall sales in territory by 29%
Editorial Assistant, Belmont, CA 8/05 — 12/05
Supported editorial list for Physics and Astronomy
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Poetry Flash, Berkeley, CA 9/03 — 4/05
Assistant Editor
Selected, copyedited, and laid out articles; planned and executed fundraising
Freelance Reporter/Photographer, The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, FL 8/95 — 6/98
Wrote articles, took photographs, generated story ideas for Education and Arts sections
COMMUNITY-BASED SCHOLARSHIP & SERVICE
Sycamore Writers/Editors in Residence, 2012-2013With Porter Shreve, created these ongoing Sycamore-funded appointments, which include manuscriptconsultations and a master class for current MFA students, as part of Purdue’s Visiting Writers Series
Author Introduction and Craft Interview, 2012Introduced and interviewed Michael Cunningham, keynote speaker and reader for Purdue Literary Awards
Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association (WALLA) Creative Writing Course, 2012
Co-taught course with Purdue Professor Kristina Bross, focused on local history, poetry, and personal essays
Business Leaders Learning Community (BLCC) Book Club, 2011Established and ran group meant to improve English reading comprehension, cross-cultural understanding,and oral proficiency of international students in the BLCC, of which I taught one section
“What Puts the ‘M’ in PMU?”, 2011Co-authored article with Lisa Young in Remembering Purdue: Purdue Memorials, Commemorations, and
Hidden Histories. Ed. by Professors Kristina Bross and Susan Curtis, for use in Alumni Education
West Lafayette Fire Department Physical and Digital Archive, 2011Catalogued and organized physical archives, and created digital archive, supported by the Purdue University
Student Service-Engagement Grant, Spring 2011, for Archival Theory and Practice projects
Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) Showcase Awards, 2011Worked with my ENGL 106 student Leslie Richard to win award for Best Reflection
Purdue Literary Awards, 2010Judge, High School short story entries
UC — Berkeley: Young Entrepreneurs at Haas School of Business, 2004
As a volunteer College Prep Instructor, created and taught course on writing college application essaysfor academically disadvantaged students
READINGS & PRESENTATIONS
Organizer and Panelist, “ 'Every Calling is Great When Greatly Pursued: Managing and Motivating EditorialVolunteers,” AWP 2013
Co-organizer, with Conor Broughan, and Panelist, “When Change is the Only Constant: How Grad Student -Run Journals Can Thrive Despite the Constant Turnover,” AWP 2012
Reader, The Fullnesss of Everything (Tiny Hardcore Press), book launch, Muncie, IN, 2012
Louisville Literary Conference, Louisville, KY, 2012Selected Reader, “Poems from After O’Keeffe”
Session Chair, “On the Road Again with Kerouac”
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Panelist, “IUPUI Fall Editors Panel,” Indiana University— Purdue University Indianapolis, 2011
Contributing reader, Slice Magazine, Issue #6 Launch, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
EDUCATION
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
M.F.A, Poetry, 2013 (expected)
Smith College, Northampton, MA
B.A., English Literature, concentration in creative writing, 2002
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
Undergraduate studies in literature, theatre, and creative writing; semester abroad, 2000
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Undergraduate studies in literature, history, and creative writing, 1998-1999
