Ella Jacobson is a writer and critic, originally from Alaska. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

She holds a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, received a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, was the 2023 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer in Nonfiction, and is currently a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

This Delicate Life, her first book, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in January 2027.