Mira Jacob

Mira Jacobs first novel, The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing, is forthcoming from Random House in July of 2014.

She is the co-founder of the much-loved Petes Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to the citys sweetest stage. Previously, she directed editorial content for various websites, co-authored shoe impresario Kenneth Coles autobiography, and wrote VH-1s Pop-Up Video.

Her writing has been published in books, magazines, on television, and across the web. She has appeared on national and local television and radio, and has taught writing to students of all ages in New York, New Mexico, and Barcelona.

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, documentary filmmaker Jed Rothstein, and their son.