“Mark Jacobs is one of the most exciting new writers I’ve read in years…. a writer who I think will become our own Graham Greene.”  -- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner in Fiction

 

A former foreign service officer, Mark Jacobs lives with his wife Anne Bulen at Heron Hill in rural Virginia. He has published 134 stories in a range of magazines including The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, Playboy, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Idaho Review, and Southern Humanities Review. His story "How Birds Communicate" won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize in 1998. His five books include three novels and two collections of short stories.

Recently Published

​"Trail Magic," Rind Literary Magazine #11
​​'"Old School," Evergreen Review
"Place of Rest," The Hudson Review
"Grandfather John," Hotel Amerika
​"Digging to China," Talisman
"Inheritance,"Literary Heist
"Down Cellar," The Courtship of Winds​​​  ​

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Forthcoming

“Swimming to the Island,” Virginia’s Emerging Writers, Anthology
“Tree of Death,” Pembroke Magazine
“In the Valley, “ Main Street Rag Magazine
"​Bird Island,” F(r)iction 
"American Dream," Delmarva Review
"Bear's Change," The Hudson Review
"Mr. Tidy," Mayday
​"Getting Out," Everywhere Stories:
Short Fiction from a Small Planet
"Bootlegger Hill," Black Dandy

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