Jacobson, Joanne

Though for the past twenty-five years she has lived in New York City and in rural Vermont, Joanne Jacobson is a child of the Midwest and of suburbia. She grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Evanston, Illinois, on the lakeshore north of Chicago, the child of children of Jewish immigrants. Her creative nonfiction and essays have appeared in The Nation, New England Review, Massachusetts. She has taught American studies, American literature, and creative writing at the University of Iowa, at Middlebury College, and at Yeshiva University, where she is currently Professor of English and Associate Dean...