Katherine Jacobs

Publishing

Katherine Jacobs is a senior acquisitions editor at Zonderkidz, an imprint of HarperCollins Christian Publishing. She previously served as senior editor at Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. A graduate of Calvin College (now University) and the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College, Jacobs was a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania and a school librarian in Honduras before working in the publishing industry.


Festival Years: 2008, 2016, 2024