Mira Jacob is the author of the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­el, The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Danc­ing, which was a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er New Writ­ers pick, short­list­ed for India’s Tata First Lit­er­a­ture Award, longlist­ed for the Brook­lyn Lit­er­ary Eagles Prize, and hon­ored by the Asian Pacif­ic Amer­i­can Librar­i­ans Asso­ci­a­tion. It was named one of the best books of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews, the Boston Globe, Goodreads, Bus­tle, and The Millions.

Her recent writ­ing, draw­ings, and short sto­ries have appeared in The New York Times, Guer­ni­ca, Vogue, Glam­our, the Tele­graph Buz­zfeed and Shon­da­land. She teach­es fic­tion at NYU, The New School, and Ran­dolph College.

In Sep­tem­ber 2014, Mira was named the Emerg­ing Nov­el­ist Hon­oree at Hud­son Val­ley Writer’s Cen­ter, where she received a com­men­da­tion from the U.S. Congress.

She is cur­rent­ly draw­ing and writ­ing her graph­ic mem­oir, Good Talk: Con­ver­sa­tions I’m Still Con­fused About (Ran­dom House, 2019). She lives in Brook­lyn with her hus­band, doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er Jed Roth­stein, and their son.