Beth Jacobs, PhD, is a poet, clinical psychologist and life-time journaler. Writing and igniting creativity have been her life’s work. She is the author of Writing for Emotional Balance (New Harbinger Publishers, 2005), Paper Sky: What Happened After Anne Frank’s Diary Ended (CreateSpace, 2014), The Original Buddhist Psychology (North Atlantic Books, 2017), A Buddhist Journal: Practices for Meditators and Writers (North Atlantic Books, 2018), Long Shadows of Practice: poems (Homebound Publications, 2021) and Luminous and Gray: poems (Shanti Arts Publishers, 2025).
Beth has facilitated poetry workshops with school age children, new parents, community workers, and grandparents, and she has seen that writing and poetry are accessible and liberating for everyone in their own way. She is compiling her fourth collection of community poetry from this work and loves witnessing people become authors of their writing and their lives.