Anna Jacobson is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, author, and researcher. Her books include Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019), Anxious in a Sweet Store (Upswell, 2023), All Rage Blaze Light (Upswell, 2025) and How to Knit a Human (NewSouth, 2024). Her poetry chapbook The Last Postman is published in the deciBels 3 series with Vagabond Press. In 2020 Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing and in 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award.
Anna’s writing has been widely published in literary journals and anthologised in publications such as Women of a Certain Courage, An Unexpected Party, a line in the sand, Admissions, Resilience, and Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry. She holds a Bachelor of Photography (Honours) from Griffith University and her art has exhibited throughout Australia in finalist exhibitions including in the Blake Art Prize, Olive Cotton Photographic Portraiture Award, Brisbane Portrait Prize, and the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing. Her highest qualification is a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology – she was awarded a 2023 QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for her creative practice research on Narrative Medicine. Anna was the 2023 Fryer Library Fellow for her research into the archive of conductor Rudolf Pekárek, scrapbooking, and Transitional Objects.