Jacob Paulโs novel, Sarah/Sara, was named by Poets & Writers as one of 2010โs five best debut fictions. His work has appeared in Hunger Mountain, Western Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, Massachusetts Review, Seneca Review, Mountain Gazette, The Rumpus, Fiction Writers Review, Numero Cinc Magazine, and USA Todayโs Weekend Magazine. A former OppenheimerFunds product manager, he now teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina.
Paul is the author of A Song of Ilan
From the author
โWe create things that we hope will, someday, become objects of value. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, many writersโFoer, DeLillo, and Roth, to name just a fewโall came out with 9/11 novels. I was initially bothered by this. I wanted to say, โFuck you; I was there.โ This passed for a couple reasons. First was the realization that weโre all survivors of one type or another. Second, these texts can never really become authoritative positions on the experiences of a group of people, no matter how well written they are or how well credentialed their creators might be. Thereโs no uniform experience of being a 9/11 survivor, no uniform experience of being a woman. These are things that canโt be owned by anyone.โ
