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Joy Jacobson is a health care journalist, medical editor, poet, and writing teacher. She specializes in medicine, nursing, peer-review publishing, poetry, journalism.
At MacDowell, she worked on a book-length series of elegies, tentatively titled Always.
Joy Jacobson worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…