Fay is a native New Yorker, who spent 30 years in the Washington, DC area working in journalism, theater and public relations.
She has contributed feature stories and columns to such publications as The Advocate, OutTraveler, The Washington Post, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, The Washington Blade, The Wilmington News Journal, Delaware Beach Life and more.
Since 1995 she has been a regular columnist for Letters from CAMP Rehoboth and writes for both Delaware Beach Life and Delaware Today. .
A&M Books is a feminist publishing company founded in 1995
by Anyda Marchant & Muriel Crawford.
Before literary icon Anyda Marchant died in January 2006, two weeks before her 95th birthday, she paved the way for her publishing company, A&M Books, to live on under the guidance of publisher/writer Fay Jacobs as a voice for female writers.
Marchant, under the pen name Sarah Aldridge, was the author of 14 classic lesbian novels and, along with her partner Muriel Crawford, as well as Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, founded Naiad Press in 1972. Naiad became one of, if not the most successful lesbian publishing imprint in the country. Marchant was president of Naiad from its inception until 1995. Marchant and Crawford founded A&M Books of Rehoboth Beach, DE in 1995 after withdrawing from Naiad Press.
Awards -
2011 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year, Non-Fiction
2011 Delaware Book of the Year, Humo
2011 Golden Crown Literary Society Winner, Essasys & Short Stories
Finalist – ForeWord Reviews Awards
Finalist – Independent Publishers IPPY Awards
2009 Delaware Press Association Award for Humor
2008 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year Non-Fiction Humor for Fried & True – Tales from Rehoboth Beach.
2008 Delaware Press Women’s Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year – Fried & True
2008 Winner of Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Non-fiction essays – Fried & True
