Jacobik is associate professor of literature at Eastern Connecticut State University, where she teaches courses in 19th and 20th century American and British poetry and creative writing. A widely published poet, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing and an Artist's Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, her poems have been nominated seven times for a Pushcart Prize. They have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1997, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, North American Review and Prairie Voice.
Her new collection, The Double Task, received the Juniper Prize in 1997 from the University of Massachusetts Press and was nominated for The James Laughlin Award. A new manuscript, The Surface of Last Scattering, has been selected as the winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and will be published in 1999 by The Texas Review Press.