Elizabeth Jacobson was the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico and an Academy of American Poets 2020 Laureate Fellow. Her third collection of poems, There are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral will be published in 2025 by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press. Her other books include Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air, winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize, selected by Marianne Boruch, (FVE/Parlor Press, 2019) and the 2019 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for both New Mexico Poetry and Best New Mexico Book; Her Knees Pulled In (Tres Chicas Books, 2012); two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, Are the Children Make Believe? and A Brown Stone; and Everything Feels Recent When You’re Far Away: Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic (Axle Books, 2021). She is a founding director of Poetry Pollinators, an ecopoetry public art initiative dedicated to empowering poetry, education, and the environment in support of declining native bee populations. Elizabeth’s work has been sustained with grants and residencies by literary organizations including eight consecutive grants from The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, New Mexico Arts, Academy of American Poets, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Mable Dodge Luhan House, Herekeke, and East Hill. Originally from New York, Elizabeth landed in New Mexico over 35 years ago and lives in a river canyon at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
