Gloria Jacobs

Gloria Jacobs is a novelist and language teacher. In her fiction, she explores the subtle boundaries between reality and imagination, where everyday life intertwines with symbolic dimensions and words become tools for self-discovery and transformation.

Passionate about the humanities, psychology, and neuroscience, she explores the forces that shape the human soul: its light, its shadows, and the invisible passages that accompany moments of change.

She is the author of the Threshold Stories series, a narrative universe in which each story stands on its own while remaining connected by an invisible thread: the search for one's true self and the desire to cross the thresholds that separate who we are from who we might become.

In 2026, her short story Letter from the Invisible Prison, inspired by the theme of psychological abuse, was awarded Third Prize at the International DivinaMente Donna Literary Award and was selected as a finalist for the Bukowski Literary Award, where it was included in the competition's official anthology.

For Gloria Jacobs, the most fascinating journey is the one that begins when we truly get to know another human being.

She lives in Italy, where she divides her time between teaching, writing, and expanding the narrative world of the Threshold.