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

Every once in a while, when you least expect it, you stumble
across a novel that reminds you of fiction’s capacity to delight and amaze. – Washington Post, on Stone Cowboy


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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 188 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.

 

Read Robert Ready’s fine new story “Our Daily Pain” in The Galway Review.


​Forthcoming

Novel

Silent Light, Evergreen Books

Short Stories

 “The Attaché,” Blue Lake Review 
“On the Jetty,” Lowestoft Chronicle
"​Steps,” The Hudson Review
​​“The Glamour,” Evergreen Review
“Glimpses,” Parhelion
 “Book Words,” The Hudson Review


​Recently Published


“Whigging Out: How I Kept Getting an Important Thing Wrong,” Lowestoft Chronicle (essay)
​“Back Where You’ve Never Been,” ArLiJo
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize ​- “Two Days Out From San Juan,” Lowestoft Chronicle
 “Stiff,” The Hudson Review
“A Manual of Adjectives,” The Hudson Review.​
“After the Meltdown, on the Hunt,” 
Lowestoft Chronicle
​“Hibernaculum,” Talismann
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize - “Head Wound,”  Jelly Bucket
 “Clean and Legal, With Birds,” The Courtship of Winds
 ​“Ways of Wanting,” Alaska Quarterly Review ​​
​“Dealbreak,” Blue Lake Review
“A Few Good Weeks,”  Bangalore Review
"Sixto in Late Light," The Hudson Review
“Dragoman,” The Hudson Review
“Famous People,” The Saturday Evening Post
“Potatoes,” Cherry Tree.
​“Monograph,” 
The Hudson Review
Swimming to the Island,” Blue Lake Review
​“Uncle Used to Have Monkeys,” The Oddville Press
​ “Worded Out,” The Oddville Press
“The Secret Book Club”  pioneertown
​"Mr. Tidy," Talisman
“Famous People,” Delmarva Review​​
“Two Things,"  
Blue Lake Review
“Eulogy,”  Levee Magazine


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​Just Released

“Breakbone,” Evergreen Review

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Juliette Losq - Epilogue, 2022
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