Sara Jacobelli

Sara Jacobelli grew up in the factory city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. She left home as a teenager and hitch-hiked around the country. In New Orleans she ran errands for the doormen and strippers on Bourbon Street before going to work in restaurants and bars. She also lived in San Francisco and in Mendocino County, California. She writes stories about the streets and the characters she has met along the way. She has worked numerous jobs including dishwasher, bus girl, waitress,  bartender, newspaper reporter. special education teacher, and librarian. Her flash fiction, short stories and nonfiction essays have been published in various places including 50-Word Stories, 101 Words, Postcard Shorts, First Stop Fiction, Drunk Monkeys, Bartleby Snopes, Fiction on the Web, The Story Shack, The New Laurel Review, One-Sentence Stories, Jambalaya 2016 and 2017, and the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. Several of her stories have won prizes in short story contests. She has taught writing workshops in New Orleans, written and directed several plays, and worked as a researcher for documentary films. She has read several of her short stories on WRBH 88.3 FM Reading Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped.