Publishing History

Jacob with poet Neeli Cherkovski (left) and American impresario Enrico Banducci (right) at Enrico's Sidewalk Café in San Francisco.

Jake is a widely published poet, alternative journalist, environmental essayist, and spiritual writer. His work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and journals in the United States, Canada, and India. He was also the Co-Founder and Editorial Director of the avante-garde travel magazine, Modern Nomad, where he introduced “place-based writing” and the moniker “Modern Nomad” to an international audience.

Indie/Activist

While attending undergraduate school in Saint Augustine, Jake published the alternative zine Phage. He was also the head of public relations for the ecological organization T.R.E.E.S., which worked to preserve wetlands and coastal scrubland in North Florida.  These two endeavors led him to receive a scholarship to the Z Media Alternative Journalism Institute where he studied with renowned author, linguist, and speaker Noam Chomsky; author Barbara Ehrenreich; and David Barsamian, the host of National Alternative Radio.

During his graduate studies in San Francisco, Jake met and learned from many prominent members of the Beat and Post-Beat generation of writers, including David Meltzer, Neeli Cherkovski, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Jack Hirschman and others.  In addition, he worked as a feature writer for the global music culture magazine, Revolution, which allowed him to research and compose articles throughout Europe.

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In 2001, Jake co-founded Places “the magazine for the modern nomad”, which evolved into Modern Nomad magazine.  It was the first magazine to explore “place” and “living nomadically” in a holistic way, and it became the printed muse that inspired the global “Modern Nomad” movement that still thrives today.  During his time as Editorial Director, Jake was interviewed by CNN, Canadian Elle magazine, and was a frequent guest on many regional NPR shows, including several appearances on Conversations with Jean Feraca produced in Madison, Wisconsin.

Throughout the years Jake has also taught courses on Travel Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, and Spiritual Literature at many colleges/universities in the United States. He has been a writer-in-residence for the InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit, at La Serrania Retreat Centre in Spain, for The Grunewald Guild in the state of Washington, and at The Stony Point Center in New York.  In addition, Jake has taught place-based and environmental writing classes for summer educational programs at Yale, Stanford, and UC-Berkeley. 

CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO READ SAMPLES OF JAKE’S PUBLISHED WORK

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San Francisco Is

First Class Literary Journal

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Music of Place

Aji Literary Magazine

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Ashland Autumn

Slow Trains Literary Journal

 
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Not Another Literary Reference to Key West

Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine

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Monks on Cell Phones and the Real Thailand

The Bangalore Review

Still Pink Form: A Meditation on Hunger

Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis

Jake’s literary, journalistic, and scholarly writings have been published in the following places:

SUFI: A Journal of Mystical Philosophy and Practice, The Bangalore Review, Abraxas Review, First Class Literary Magazine, Work Literary Magazine, Aji Literary Magazine, Birdhouse Magazine, Slow Trains Literary Journal, The Flagler Review, Bywords: Ottawa, Stone Voices Journal, Phage, Pudding Magazine: The Journal of Applied Poetics, Birmingham Magazine, Tuscaloosa Magazine, The Tuscaloosa News, The St. Augustine Record, Outside In Literary and Travel Magazine, Revolution Magazine, Beatdom: A Literary Journal dedicated to the study of the Beat Generation, and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis.