“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

​"​Bird Island,” F(r)iction
​​'"Old School," Evergreen Review
"Place of Rest," The Hudson Review

Forthcoming

“A Brief History of Bullfighting,” Oddville Press
"Getting Out," Everywhere Stories
Tree of Death,” Pembroke Magazine
“In the Valley, “ Main Street Rag Magazine
"American Dream," Delmarva Review
"Bear's Change," The Hudson Review
"Mr. Tidy," Mayday
"Bootlegger Hill," Black Dandy

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Just Released

​​​Everywhere Stories:
Short Fiction from a Small Planet volume III
CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: MARK JACOBS
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