Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. She is an Assistant Professor at The New School’s M.F.A. in Writing program and is a founding faculty member of the M.F.A. Writing Program at Randolph College.
Her graphic memoir Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, nominated for three Eisner Awards, and named a New York Times Notable Book. It is currently in development as a television series. Her novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick, shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award, and longlisted for the Brooklyn Literary Eagles Prize.
At MacDowell, she worked on We Killed Anji Alexander, a novel about the murder of a white-passing Indian actress. It has been optioned as a limited series by Sony Pictures.
