 She also said that the "greatest thing" she can feel about one of her poems is that it has " helped another human being in a really bad time".Being a fan of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, Jacobsen wrote poems on her love of baseball.Short stories and nonfiction

Jacobsen also wrote short stories, including the collections "A Walk with Raschid and Other Stories" (1978), "On the Island" (1989), and "What Goes Without Saying" (1996).