J L JacobsJ.L. Jacobs was born in 1967 in a small town in the rural South. She began her own project of collecting folklore, particularly that of womenfolks, at the age of eleven. She did carry those bug-eaten books out of the barn, and they, along with the Mariarchs she learned from, are woven into her work. She has a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and an M.F.A. in poetry from Brown University. In 1992, Leave Books published her chapbook Varieties of Inflorescence. J.L. Jacobs' work has appeared in many literary journals, including New American Writing, First Intensity, New Orleans Review, Five Fingers Review, and Talisman. She edited the 1995-96 season Of Chance Abstractions. J.L. Jacobs resides in Valliant, Oklahoma. Read More Read Less