Anna Jacobson Anna Jacobson i(6998320 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Anna Jacobson is a Brisbane-based poet, writer, and artist. Her poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies such as Cordite, Rabbit, Meanjin, ABR’s States of Poetry Queensland and Verity La. Jacobson has a Master of Philosophy from QUT, where she also specialised in poetry through her Bachelor of Fine Arts (along with studies in Creative and Professional Writing and Graphic Design). She also holds a Bachelor of Photography with Honours from Griffith University. 

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 shortlisted Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest for 'All Rage Blaze Light'.
2022 shortlisted Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2020 winner Nillumbik Genre Award — Open Section — Creative non-fiction for 'Songs from the Vault'.
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon How to Knit a Human : A Memoir Sydney : NewSouth Publishing , 2024 27274292 2024 single work autobiography

'I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it. I went mad. Why can’t I have the secret knowledge that comes with it?

'How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? Anna Jacobson awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues.

How to Knit a Human is about the splintering of memory from psychosis and Electroconvulsive therapy that Anna experienced as an involuntary patient in 2011. Through knitting and assemblage, weaving experiences around the gaps of memories that are not accessible, the memory barriers begin to crumble. This book is a reclamation of memory and self.'  (Publication summary)
2016 shortlisted Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers
2024 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
2020 shortlisted The Spark Prize
2017 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award
y separately published work icon Anxious in a Sweet Store Perth : Upswell Publishing , 2023 26372274 2023 selected work poetry 'Anxious in a Sweet Store is Anna Jacobson's second illustrated poetry collection where the 'sweet', whimsical, humorous, and quirky is juxtaposed with the 'anxious' and disabling forces of mental illness. Themes of food, family, dreams, and culture crystalise, while the poet's mind is fizz bang sherbet on the tongue. Anxious in a Sweet Store is an inventive collection of poems that build and enrich each other across threads of music and anxiety and beyond.' 

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2024 inaugural winner Australian Jewish Book Awards — Young Jewish Writers Award
Memory Curls i "Memory Curls", 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , February no. 104 2022;
2022 shortlisted The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Poetry
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