Books

Modern Fables: Essays

Reviews of Modern Fables

“Jacobsen’s voice is sharp, self-deprecating and funny, and her fierce intelligence muscles through the whole.” - Alberta Views

“In this exceptional read, Jacobsen is blazingly honest and incisive as she guides readers through the discontents of modern love, illuminating a thrilling array of public lies, private truths, and vice versa. “ - Room Magazine

“These essays are gorgeous, brutal, stunningly crafted, and pack a punch, like a one-two, WHAM, and then another, and then another, you’re sad when it’s all done.” - Pickle Me This

Essays

“The Wake.” Prairie Fire, vol. 42, no. 3, October 2021.

“Don’t Cast Your Purls Before Swine.” Canadian Notes & Queries, no. 108, Fall 2020/Winter 2021.

“Kurt Vonnegut Lives on Tinder.” The Missouri Review, vol. 43, no. 3, Fall 2020 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize).

“Finding an Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut.” Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2020.

“Modern Fables.” The Puritan, no. 49, Spring 2020.

“Parlour Tricks.” The Fiddlehead, no. 277, Fall 2018.

“The Indian Act.” subTerrain, vol. 8, no. 78, Winter 2017 (winner of the Lush Triumphant Award for nonfiction).

Fiction

“Better Instincts.” PRISM International, vol. 62, no. 2, Spring 2024.

“Good Victory.” The Windsor Review, vol. 56, no. 1, Spring 2023.

“Who, What, Where, When.” Alberta Views, December 2022 (Short Story Contest Winner).

“The Neighbor” Joyland, June 2022.

“Home of the Griffins.” Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 9, 2020.

“Cok! Cok!” The Anti-Languorous Project, vol. 1, no. 1, 2018.

“St. Martins, New Brunswick.” Luma Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 9, 2017.