Mark Jacobs

Mark Jacobs is the editor of Essays From Epilogue by Riding and Graves (Carcanet), and has contributed introductions for new editions of her collected poems (Persea Books). He is also the editor of Trent Editions’ Laura (Riding) Jackson series. He corresponded with Laura (Riding) Jackson for 20 years, visiting her at her home in Wabasso, Florida. His memoir on the visit is published in Jack Blackmore’s The Unthronged Oracle (Mereo Books). For twelve years, he served on the board of Laura (Riding) Jackson’s literary estate, before it was passed to Cornell University in 2010. He has worked as a Fellow at Nottingham Trent University, where he founded the Laura (Riding) Jackson Archive.