Anna Jacobson

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  Anna Jacobson is an award-winning writer and artist from Meanjin (Brisbane). Anna’s memoir How to Knit a Human was published with NewSouth in 2024. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019), her first full-length poetry collection, won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. Her second illustrated poetry collection is Anxious in a Sweet Store (Upswell, 2023). She was awarded the 2023 Fryer Library Fellowship and was the recipient of the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing, a Queensland Writers Fellowship, and a Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Anna was shortlisted in the 2022 Poetry and Digital Innovation Categories in the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. Her highest qualification is a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from QUT (2023). She was a finalist in the 65th Blake Art Prize, 2019 Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing and 2009 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture.

Website:

• https://www.annajacobson.com.au/