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Mark Jacobs​

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​Mark Jacobs writes stories. Many of these 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 220 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.

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This is an ode to the wretched of the earth and the angels that ​walk among them. Welcome a great American writer."
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​- Marita Golden, author of The Wide Circumference of Love
Mark Jacobs is our greatest living writer of short stories, it could well be said. With Silent Light, after hundreds of splendid stories, it is time to examine his greatness as a novelist as well."

​- Evans Hopkins, author of Life After Life

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Short Stories

200+ short stories
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4 novels and
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Essays & More

20+ essays, interviews
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"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
​Writer.

Born in Niagara Falls, Mark Jacobs spent fifteen years living and working in countries outside the United States. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, where he spent two years in Potrero Yapepó, a remote village in the south of the country. As a Foreign Service officer, he served in Europe, Turkey, and Latin America. He currently lives in rural Virginia, on 32 acres of what used to be a farm, where he writes full time. 

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Jacobs holds a doctorate from Drew University, a masters from the School for International Training, and a bachelors degree from Alma College. He speaks Spanish, Turkish, and Guaraní. ​

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  • Home
  • Books
    • Silent Light
    • A Handful of Kings
    • Forty Wolves
    • Stone Cowboy
    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
  • Short Stories
  • Essays & More