Kathryn Jacobs is a medievalist-turned-poet with a chapbook called Advice Column out at 
Finishing Line Press (2008), and a doctorate from Harvard.  She has published well over a hundred 
poems in the last three years, at journals like The Formalist, Measure, Acumen, Decanto, Mezzo 
Cammin, Washington Literary Journal, 14 by 14, Barefoot Muse, Slant, Poetry Midwest, Wordgathering, 
etc. Herlatest chapbook,  Signs of Our Times was published very recently. A professor at Texas 
A & M – C, Kathryn initially focused most of her attention on scholarship, producing a book on medieval 
marriage contracts, sixteen articles, and a scattering of published poetry. That changed in 2005, when 
she lost her son Raymond at eighteen. She continues to enjoy his twin (Elizabeth) and their sister (Rachel).