Elizabeth Jacobson

Elizabeth Jacobson is a poet who served as the fifth Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 2019 to 2021. She was also an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2020. Her collection Not into the Blossoms and Not into the Air won the New Measure Poetry Prize and the 2019 New Mexico–Arizona Book Award. Her third collection, There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral, was published by Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press in 2025. She founded the WingSpan Poetry Project, which brought poetry classes to shelters in Santa Fe, and she edits reviews for Terrain.org. She is based in Santa Fe and also spends time in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.