Robert Jacoby

Robert Jacoby is a poet, novelist, memoirist, and lifelong journaler. His work explores memory, faith, trauma, and the long work of making a life through words.

He is the author of four books, including the novels There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes (2012) and Dusk and Ember (2019), and the nonfiction works Never Stop Dancing: A Memoir (2019) and Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying (2011).

His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and his flash fiction piece “The Span of Blood” was selected as runner-up in the 2018 Haunted Waters Press Short Shorts Competition.

He has completed two additional novels and is currently at work on a collection of linked short stories and flash fiction.