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About Roberta Beach Jacobson
- Roberta Beach Jacobson (born July 21, 1952) is an American journalist, humorist, and early ezine editor. Jacobson was born as Roberta Beach Johnson in Worcester, Massachusetts.
- Her first publication came at age 8 in Jack and Jill.
- After finishing high-school in 1970, she joined the United States Army which sent her to Germany.
- She remains an expatriate, saying "I prefer Europe.
- I'm where I want to be".
- (Travelwriters.com, 2004) After leaving the armed forces, she followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, Robert K.
- Beach, and mother, Roberta Beach Johnson and became a journalist, joining the Stars & Stripes publication in Germany at the news desk, and later the city desk. During her Stars & Stripes work, Jacobson drew attention from a column entitled, "Dear Bobby" that ran from the late 1980s to the early 1990s in the Shoppers Bi-Weekly News, distributed in Europe. In 1996 Jacobson became a full-time freelance writer working for travel publications, translating books, and contributing to 55 anthologies published on four continents. In 1999 she relocated to the far-flung Greek island of Karpathos, and became the editor of an early internet ezine, Kafenio.
- She also edited the ezines IslandMania (2001–2003) and InsiderEuropa (2001–2003).
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