Sara Jacobelli grew up in the factory city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. She left home as a teenager and hitch-hiked around the country. In New Orleans she ran errands for the doormen and strippers on Bourbon Street before going to work in restaurants and bars. She writes stories about the streets and the characters she has met along the way, especially in New Orleans and San Francisco. She has worked numerous jobs including dishwasher, bus girl, bartender, special education teacher, librarian, newspaper reporter and private investigator's assistant. Her flash fiction, short stories and nonfiction have been published in various places including Postcard Shorts, First Stop Fiction, Drunk Monkeys Literary Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Page & Spine, Catapult Community, Fiction on the Web, The Story Shack, Flash-shot, 50-Word Stories, The New Laurel Review, One-Sentence Stories: Books 1, 2, and 3, Jambalaya 2016 and 2017, Dante's Parking Ticket (published by the Iowa Writers Guild), and the New York Times Metropolitan Diary. In the early nineties she edited and wrote for the popular zine, The Dagger. In the late nineties, she was a reporter for the controversial Northern California weekly newspaper, the AVA. She has taught workshops on writing flash fiction and short stories at the Jambalaya Writers Conference in Houma, Louisiana and at the New Orleans Public Library. She hosts the In the Garden Writers' Workshop and the Barcation! Reading Series, both held in the New Orleans Bywater neighborhood.
Many of her stories have won prizes in short story contests:

"Nine Dead Dope Dealers" won an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Writers Digest Popular Fiction Awards, in the Mystery/Crime Category.

"We're Ready When You Are" won Fifth Place in the 2016 8th Annual Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine Dialogue-Only Short Story Contest.

"Half Moon Bay" was named Story of the Month in May 2015 by Fiction on the Web Literary Magazine.

"The Legend of Salty Charlie" won First Place in the 2015 Finn McCool's Irish Pub Short Story Contest.

"The Extra Part" won an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Finn McCool's Irish Pub Short Story Contest.

"Hustler Boy" won First Place in Drunk Monkey Literary Magazine's Summer 2014 Short Fiction Contest. This story was also named Flash Fiction Story of the Week in 2014 by Punk Rock Cereal Bowl.

"Along for the Ride" tied for Second Place in the 2012 Finn McCool's Irish Pub Short Story Contest.

Short Story Blog: Capitare a Fagiolo: https://capitareafagiolo.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @SaraJacobelli