Ella Jacobson

Photograph © Shawn Poynter

About The Author

Ella Jacobson’s work has appeared in The Drift, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, received a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, was the 2023 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer in Nonfiction, and is currently a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

Books by Ella Jacobson

This Delicate Life

Memoir of Accident and Aftermath

A striking memoir in the vein of The Glass Castle and Half a Life, in which a young Alaskan woman must relearn how to live after accidentally killing a cyclist.
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