Currently

Writing Memory’s Bright Burn, a linked collection of stories and flash fiction.

Two completed novels seeking representation.

Publishing essays on writing and the creative life on Substack.

Robert Jacoby

Writer of fiction, poetry, memoir, and essays

The books

Four titles · 2011 – 2019

Nonfiction · 2019

Never Stop Dancing

A Memoir
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Novel · 2019

Dusk and Ember

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Amazon →

Novel · 2012

There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes

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Nonfiction · 2011

Escaping from Reality Without Really Trying

Amazon →

About the author

A short biography

Robert Jacoby is a novelist, poet, memoirist, and essayist. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines. He is the author of four books, including the novels There Are Reasons Noah Packed No Clothes and Dusk and Ember, and the memoir Never Stop Dancing.

“I am interested in what people will say to each other when they finally stop pretending. Most of my work begins there.”

He has completed two new novels that are currently seeking representation and is at work on Memory’s Bright Burn, a linked collection of stories and flash fiction. He also writes essays about writing on Substack. 

From the notebook

Recent

• April 2024
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  On finishing a novel, and starting again
  

Notebook

• November 2023
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  Reading at the Ivy Bookshop
  

Events / Baltimore

• August 2023
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  Two new novels, and a note on seeking representation
  

Notebook

• March 2022
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  An interview with The Loch Raven Review
  

Interviews

Writing updates.

Occasional notes on new work, publications, and life at the desk.

Or write directly — robert@robert-jacoby.com