Jennifer Jacobson

 

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Jennifer Jacobson’s writing appears in the Master's Review, Chronogram, Linea, Switch, jubilat, (and elsewhere) with honorable mentions from Glimmer Train, Hunger Mountain, Symphony Space, and the Tennessee Williams Festival. She is the recipient of a Creative Teaching Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Storytelling Network’s Brimstone Award. Her writing has been graciously supported with residencies from Straw Dog Writers Guild and Turkey Land Cove Foundation. 

 

The founder of When Children Save the Day, an educational project uniting storytelling and social action, Jennifer has worked in K-12 schools, libraries, and museums in Massachusetts and New York City.  She also created the Family Storytelling Project with Voices from Inside for incarcerated women and their families. Born in Zomba, Malawi, Jennifer now lives in western Massachusetts and works in the English Department at UMass Amherst. In the summer, she teaches creative writing as part of Smith’s pre-college program.

 

Jennifer is completing her first novel about love, rebellion, and the deadly consequences of lying. The story is set in Hangzhou, China, where Jennifer taught in 1989 and where she witnessed the pro-democracy efforts that threatened to topple the government and led to the massacre of innocent protesters in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.​​