Mira Jacob

Mira performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn, on January 30, 2017, speaking on the theme, “Turn the Page,” and led a College Readiness after-school workshop for SpeakTogether at Union Settlement in East Harlem on October 26, 2016 and June 8, 2017. Mira also performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater on January 21, 2020, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Feast Your Eyes.” On May 31, 2023, Mira also performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Bronx High School for Law and Community Service in the Bronx speaking on the theme, ““What Comes After…”

Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed 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. It was named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bustle, and The Millions. Her writing and drawings have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Tin House, Literary Hub, Guernica, Vogue, the Telegraph, and Buzzfeed, and she has a drawn column on Shondaland. She currently teaches at The New School, and she is a founding faculty member of the MFA Program at Randolph College. She is the co-founder of Pete’s Reading Series in Brooklyn, where she spent 13 years bringing literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to Williamsburg.

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