Mark Jacobs, author
  • Mark Jacobs
  • Books
    • Silent Light
    • A Handful of Kings
    • Forty Wolves
    • Stone Cowboy
    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
  • Short Stories
  • Essays & Interviews
  • Bio
  • Contact

"Every now and then a novel comes along that not only reinvigorates your faith in what a novel can accomplish but reimagines for you how a novel can be made, the fluency of its movements and the potency of its meanings.” William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark

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​Mark Jacobs writes stories. Many of his stories take place in the countries around the world where he has lived, worked, and traveled, from Spain to the Congo, Paraguay to Kazakhstan. Others take place in Broadhope County, a protectorate of the imagination situated in rural south central Virginia, where he and his wife Anne now live. Still others arise in and from the City of Niagara Falls and the Niagara Frontier, where he was born and grew up.

To date 197 of the stories have been published in magazines including The Hudson Review, Evergreen Review, The Atlantic, Playboy, The Baffler, The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and many others. The short story page has links to all the stories currently available online.

There are more stories.

 

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​FORTHCOMING

Novel

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Available for pre-sale at Amazon

Advance praise for Silent Light

"This is an ode to the wretched of the earth and the angels that
​walk among them. Welcome a great American writer.
– Marita Golden, author of The Wide Circumference of Love​

Short Stories

“Some Things I Remember,” The Lowestoft Chronicle
 “Arch of Flowers,” The Hudson Review,
​"Sleepy Jesus," Change Seven
​"Note to Self," Blue Mountain Review
“Script,” Johnny America
​ “Manolo Took My Phone,” Lowestoft Chronicle
​​“The Glamour,” Evergreen Review
 “Book Words,” The Hudson Review



​RECENTLY PUBLISHED

​“Glimpses,” Parhelion
 “The Road to Agadez,” Lowestoft Chronicle 
​"​Steps,” 
The Hudson Review
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“The Attaché,” Blue Lake Review ​​
“What Birds Know,” Fictive Dream
“On the Jetty,” Lowestoft Chronicle
“Whigging Out: How I Kept Getting an Important Thing Wrong,” Lowestoft Chronicle (essay)
​“Back Where You’ve Never Been,” ArLiJo
​- “Two Days Out From San Juan,” Lowestoft Chronicle
 “Stiff,” The Hudson Review

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