Mary Elder Jacobsen
Mary Elder Jacobsen was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Annapolis, Maryland. She holds a BA with honors in art from Goucher College, an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she was a teaching fellow, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals and have been selected for anthologies, radio, Poetry Daily, and other distinctions. A recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency, she lives in North Calais, Vermont. Stonechat is her debut poetry collection.