Heather Jacobsen, @hkjacobsen, is a former researcher and writer for the National Academy of Sciences. Her poetry has been featured on PBSNewsHour Online, among others. She recently completed a memoir, and also writes fiction and nonfiction.
Heather has a Master’s in Science in Ethnobontany from the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) and a BA from the University of Virginia. She founded the Central Shoreline Writer’s Group and led it in 2019. She also founded the Facebook group, Natural Endometriosis and Adenomyosis Treatment (NEAT), which has over 10,000 members.
Heather lives with her husband, two children and three cats in Connecticut.