Julie "Jules" Jacob is the author of The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in the 2012 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition, published May 2013 by Finishing Line Press. Jules' poems, short stories, and non-fiction essays have appeared in a variety of print and online publications including Rust + Moth, Third Wednesday, Frogpond, Camroc Press Review, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Binnacle Literary Journal of Coastal Maine, The Writer's Gazette and elsewhere. She was selected to participate in The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2015 Poetry Workshop in Auvillar, France.

Jules attended the University of New Hampshire, The Horticultural Therapy Institute and Colorado State University. Her deep curiosity, and affinity for the natural world led her to become a Horticultural Therapist and Master Gardener Emeritus for the University of Missouri Extension. Jules advocates for abused and neglected children for CASA of Southwest Missouri and lives in the Mark Twain National Forest near Branson, Missouri.

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