Elizabeth Jacobson

Elizabeth Jacobson received a BA from Rollins College and an MFA from Columbia University in creative writing.



Jacobson is the author of There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral (Parlor Press, 2025); Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2019), which won the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch, and the 2019 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book; Are the Children Make Believe? (Dancing Girl Press, 2017); A Brown Stone (Dancing Girl Press, 2015); and Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012). She is the editor of Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away: Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021).



Jacobson was the founding director of the WingSpan Poetry Project, a not-for-profit which, from 2013 to 2020, conducted weekly poetry classes in shelters for battered families and the unhoused in Santa Fe, New Mexico. WingSpan received funding from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and a Community Partners Award from the Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families. The project closed during the pandemic.

Jacobson was the fifth poet laureate of Santa Fe, and her community projects have received nine consecutive grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. She is a reviews editor for Terrain.org and directs the poetry programs at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts (CCA).

Read about Elizabeth Jacobson’s 2020 Poets Laureate Fellowship project.