Mira Jacob

Biography

Mira Jacob is the author of the novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Book Award, longlisted for the Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize, and honored by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. It was named one of the best fiction books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, and Goodreads. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, and Glamour. She teaches fiction at NYU and the New School.

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NOTES TO SELF / Summer 2017

Mira Jacob’s Notes to Self

By Mira Jacob ,  Photography by Sarah Blesener

It began, as so many cultural inquiries do, with some confusion about Michael Jackson. The summer of 2014, Mira Jacob’s son (we’ll call him Z) was obsessed with the singer, which is to be expected of a six-year-old who knows what’s what...

Photo by Sarah Blesener