Just Published!
Mar 31st, 2011On March 31, 2011, Valerie’s essay “A Better Place” was published in an anthology entitled Twelve Breaths a Minute: End-of-Life Essays, a collaboration between SMU Press and Creative Nonfiction. The book, which contains twenty-three moving testimonies, is edited by Lee Gutkind and contains an introduction by Francine Prose. 
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Valerie Seiling Jacobs holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University and a B.S. and J.D. from Cornell University. Before turning to teaching and writing, she practiced law for more than two decades.
In 2014, Ms. Jacobs joined the faculty at Columbia University, where she teaches writing, conducts workshops, and works as a consultant in the Writing Center. She also conducts private seminars (often for CLE credit) for attorneys and professionals who wish to improve their writing skills.
Ms. Jacobs is currently working on a nonfiction book about a man who has been on death row in Alabama for more than 25 years.